nach- ‘after/follow, imitate, repeat’etw. nach*schlagen ‘to look sth. up’
jmdm. etw. nach*machen ‘to imitate/copy sb.’
jmdm. nach*singen ‘to sing what sb. else has just sung’vor- ‘before, in front of/show how to’etw. vor*zeigen ‘to show, present sth.’
jmdm. etw. vor*werfen ‘to accuse sb. of sth.’ (lit. ‘to throw sth. in front of sb.’)
jmdm. etw. vor*machen ‘to show sb. how to do sth.’weg- ‘away’ (see 80.7)weg*fahren ‘to drive off’
weg*bleiben ‘to stay away’wieder- ‘again’ (see 36.3d)jmdn. wieder*sehen ‘to see someone again’
wieder*kehren ‘to return’zu- ‘to, towards/closed’zu*schauen ‘to watch (as a spectator)’
jmdm. etw. zu*flüstern ‘to whisper sth. to sb.’
etw. zu*machen ‘to close/shut’zurück- ‘back/return’zuruck*blättern ‘to flick back through the pages’zusammen- ‘together/collapse’etw. zusammen*tun ‘to pool, put sth. together’
zusammen*brechen ‘to collapse’ (lit. ‘break together’)
jmdn. zusammen*hauen ‘to beat sb. up’57.2 Prefixes which are always inseparable
See 36.2 (p. 84).
be- and be- ... -ig- (sometimes with umlaut) produce verbs with an accusative object
(see 18.1) from nouns and adjectives:der Nachteil ‘disadvantage’ > jmdn. benachteiligen ‘to disadvantage sb.’
die Vollmacht ‘power of authority’ > jmdn. bevollmächtigen ‘to give sb. power of
authority’
die Schranke ‘barrier’ > jmdn./etw. beschränken ‘to restrict sb./sth.’
rein ‘clean’ > etw. bereinigen ‘to clear sth. up (misunderstanding etc.)/put straight’be- also forms verbs with an accusative object which can be used instead of a verb +
preposition sequence:auf eine Frage antworten > eine Frage beantworten ‘to answer a question’ent- often suggests removing something (cf. English ‘dis-’, ‘de-’):jmdn. entmutigen ‘to discourage/make sb. feel dispirited’
entkommen ‘to escape’57
Verbal prefixes