rangehen vs abnehmen

[kavinda14]

both can be used to answer the phone right? What's the difference?? :)

[AHA3006]

"Ich gehe ans Telefon" (short and slightly colloquial: "Ich gehe ran") or "Ich nehme den Hörer ab". The latter refers to times when you had to lift the receiver from the base of a phone and is still sometimes (seldom imo) used in the short form of "Ich nehme ab".

[Hannibal-Barkas]

Abnehmen has the more common use of saying "I am loosing weight". As AHA said, in your usage it was about lifting the receiver of a phone landline. In times of cellphones its usage may disappear sometimes soon.

[Max.Em]

Nothing, but abnehmen is a bit more formal.