Also means
watch
Usage Note
beobachten is inseparable despite looking long, so the be- never detaches: Ich beobachte die Vögel. It means watching attentively or scientifically, stronger than just sehen. Its participle is beobachtet and the related noun is Beobachtung ('observation').
Examples
"Wir beobachten die Vögel im Garten."
Natural Translation
We are watching the birds in the garden.
Literal Translation
We observe the birds in-the garden.
Related Words
- Akkommodation accommodation (focusing adjustment of the eye lens)
- Anosmie anosmia, loss of smell
- Blick look
- Bogengang semicircular canal (inner ear)
- Brennen burning sensation
- Dunkeladaptation dark adaptation (eye adjustment from light to darkness)
- Dämmerungssehen twilight vision, scotopic vision
- Eigengeruch body odour; characteristic personal scent
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