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Über

May 4th, 2015

Do you know the German prefix “über”? It means “over” and is used in such verbs as überholen (overtake), überhören (overhear), übersehen (overlook), überschreiben (overwrite) – you get the idea.
However, it is also used to designate the day after tomorrow. Tomorrow is morgen, the day after tomorrow is übermorgen, and the day after the day after tomorrow is über-übermorgen.

The other day, we were out and about with my dad, or Opa to my daughter (who is almost five now). After visiting a sailing ship at the old port in my hometown, she wanted to know what we’d do next. We told her. She wanted to know what we’d do after that: “Und dann?” (And then?) We told her. But it seemed she wanted the entire day’s program, for her next question was “Und über-dann?”

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