runter
Appearance
German
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Contraction of herunter (“down here”), semantically influenced by hinunter (“down there”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Adverb
[edit]runter
- (colloquial) down, down here, downstairs (towards the speaker)
- Er kommt jetzt runter. -- He's coming downstairs now.
- (colloquial) down, down there, downstairs (away from the speaker)
- Er geht runter zu den andern. -- He's going downstairs to the other people.