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räumen

clear

verb ROY-men Less Common

Also means

vacate

Usage Note

räumen means to clear away or vacate, and it sprouts many separable prefixes: aufräumen ('to tidy up'), ausräumen ('to empty out'), wegräumen ('to clear away'). It comes from Raum ('room, space'), the idea being to free up space. Its participle is geräumt.

Examples

"Wir räumen das Zimmer."

Natural Translation

We are clearing the room.

Literal Translation

We clear the room.

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