"Ich werde nachfragen."
Translation:I will inquire.
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In addition to the meanings from duolingo, it is also somewhat similar to "to follow up with something/someone" in English I think - looking into something further.
I actually thought nachfragen meant something like: "ask about" or another way to say "find out" (through questioning). I don't think it's as formal as 'enquire' is in the UK.
For non native English speakers, speakers from England will normally say 'I enquire' and reserve the word 'inquire' for a detailed investigation such as a coroner's inquiry. American speakers tend always to use 'inquire'.
Wow.. I was never taught of any difference between enquire and inquire in the US. In fact every time I saw inquire with an "e" I just assumed it was just a britishism, not that "inquire" would mean something different to them.
It's one of the first words, as an ex-patriot brit, that I noticed as being different between US and UK EN, there are in fact quite a few words that are used differently between US and EK EN, take a look at this sentence.
- He wears suspenders on his pants
That sentence will get UK EN speakers reeling in laughter.
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It seems like pants=underwear and suspenders=garter belt. Furthermore male underwear does not typically require such support to stay up.
Furthermore, suspenders in the UK are what ladies would use to hold up their stockings if they were not self supporting. So to say a sentence which gives an English person the mental image of a man in only his underpants help up by ladies suspenders will have every English person rolling on the floor in laughter. Another word for suspenders as related to holding up men's trousers (US pants) is 'braces.' Again, the thought of a man using a pair of braces to hold up his underpants is also very funny. So, lots of mirth for the English and lots of confusion for others.
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I think having known the word "nachdenken" helped clarify this word a little bit for me.
Nachdenken is basically "to think deeply on something" (Not to be confused with überlegen which is a reflection on something more commonplace https://yourdailygerman.wordpress.com/tag/difference-uberlegen-nachdenken/ )
So my first guess on "Nachfragen" was that it meant "to ask about/look into" something.
In modern English shall and will are interchangeable as future tense with I.
The verb says it's fragen nach? Why is it the other way around in this sentence.
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It's a separable verb. "Ich frage nach" and "Ich nachfrage" are equivalent. However, since the primary verb is "werden", the remaining verbs are pushed to the end, and verbs on the end do not get separated.
Well, there's "erkundigen" how is this different from "nachfragen" apart from the former is a reflexive verb.
Could someone please explain, what's wrong with "I will request"? Why is it different from "I will inquire"?
