I have just seen this sentence “Kannst du bitte runter in die Küche kommen” which I understand means “Can you please come down to the kitchen”.
When would you use “runter” instead of “unter”?
When would you use “runter” instead of “unter”?
“Runter” instead of “unter”
RexV
June 2, 2019
sfpugh
June 5, 2019
Firstly runter is a contraction on hinunter or herunter.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/runter
hin usually indicates movement away from the speaker and her towards the speaker.
https://www.thegermanprofessor.com/hin-or-her/
So as I understand it, unter is static and runter implies motion.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/runter
hin usually indicates movement away from the speaker and her towards the speaker.
https://www.thegermanprofessor.com/hin-or-her/
So as I understand it, unter is static and runter implies motion.