• Samsy@lemmy.ml
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    26 days ago

    Okay that sounds familiar. Germans use it the same way. Carry means “tragen” and nobody would use “schleppen” in a serious sentence.

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      25 days ago

      Schleppen is an act of heavy carrying. So smb. carries (trägt) a pen from a to b. But smb. schleppt a 20kg canister of water from a to b.