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What is the difference between warten and abwarten ?Feel free to just provide example sentences.
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Abwarten suggests that you're waiting for something specific, you're anticipating something to happen.
But warten just means that you're waiting; not necessarily FOR something. It's just "waiting for the sake of waiting":)
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- Turkish
warten to wait
abwarten to wait and see
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Abwarten suggests that you're waiting for something specific, you're anticipating something to happen.
But warten just means that you're waiting; not necessarily FOR something. It's just "waiting for the sake of waiting":)
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- Simplified Chinese (China)
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Genau! Man wartet auf etwas; aber man muss etwas abwarten.
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