ABSTRACT
Not long ago, on Days 13 and 15, we revised prepositions. Today's chapter links up with this: it deals with set combinations of verbs and prepositions in German, such as sich freuen auf [to look forward to] or hoffen auf [to hope for]. Sometimes these are called ‘verbs with a prepositional object’. English has such set combinations, too, but they are simpler to use, since there is no need to remember to use a case ending as well as the preposition. The other complicating factor is that although the German prepositions sometimes correspond to their English counterparts — as in danken für [to thank for] — very often an entirely different preposition is used, as in glauben an [to believe in].
