cheers100 Posted December 20, 2015 Report Share Posted December 20, 2015 Guten Tag, What does "Abeite tüchtig" mean? Does it mean "work hard" or "work efficiently" ? I am stumbled by tüchtig, which has several meanings according Collins German English Dictionary. I don't have more context about it. I read it from my German Textbook, which just illstrates how a verb with the ending of "t" works for a imperative sentence. The word-tüchtig is not listed in the vocabulary of this lesson. Vielen Dank im Voraus! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
linguaholic Posted December 22, 2015 Report Share Posted December 22, 2015 On 12/20/2015 at 8:27 AM, cheers100 said: Guten Tag, What does "Abeite tüchtig" mean? Does it mean "work hard" or "work efficiently" ? I am stumbled by tüchtig, which has several meanings according Collins German English Dictionary. I don't have more context about it. I read it from my German Textbook, which just illstrates how a verb with the ending of "t" works for a imperative sentence. The word-tüchtig is not listed in the vocabulary of this lesson. Vielen Dank im Voraus! Expand That's exactly what it means. It is probably a little bit more 'efficiently' than hard. Tüchtig is an adverbial adjective. Have you heard of Duden? You can always find some good info about all kind of German words there: http://www.duden.de/rechtschreibung/tuechtig Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cheers100 Posted December 22, 2015 Author Report Share Posted December 22, 2015 On 12/22/2015 at 12:37 PM, linguaholic said: That's exactly what it means. It is probably a little bit more 'efficiently' than hard. Tüchtig is an adverbial adjective. Have you heard of Duden? You can always find some good info about all kind of German words there: http://www.duden.de/rechtschreibung/tuechtig Expand Thank you for your reply. I heard about native speakers mentioned about Duden, but I had thought it was completely in German. It is beyond my capacity as I just teach myself German for less than 1 month, and I take a very slow step on it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sailor Cat Posted September 9, 2016 Report Share Posted September 9, 2016 I also think "tüchtig" can mean something like "diligent". So, if you say: "Du bist aber tüchtig!", it means you are really hardworking or ambitious to work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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