German VERB B2 Rank 18096

annähern

to approach / approximate

annähern – näherte an – hat angenähert

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Forms adapted from the German Wiktionary entry annähern, by Wiktionary contributors, licence CC BY-SA 4.0.

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annähern vs Annäherung

approach / rapprochement / approximation

Die Annäherung and sich annähern can describe the same process, in which positions become more similar. Die Annäherung names this process as a thing or result; sich annähern describes what the people involved do as a verb. The choice therefore depends on the sentence structure here.

Visual example for Annäherung
annähern

Die beiden Gruppen näherten sich nach mehreren Gesprächen deutlich an.

The two groups clearly moved closer together after several discussions.

Annäherung

Die Annäherung der beiden Gruppen wurde nach mehreren Gesprächen deutlich.

The rapprochement between the two groups became clear after several discussions.

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