What to do with decisions in German

Useful German Word of the Day: “Entscheidung” (f.) – This word means “decision” and, interestingly, in German a decision isn’t “reached” or “made” or “arrived at”, but rather it is “hit” in the sense of hitting a target (“treffen”):

“Ich treffe große Entscheidungen.” – “I make big decisions.”
“Haben wir eine Entscheidung getroffen?” – “Have we reached a decision?”
“Er hat die Entscheidung getroffen zu gehen.” – “He’s made the decision to go.”

The verb, incidentally, is “entscheiden” (“to decide”), and requires the reflexive “sich”, “mich”, “dich”, etc.:

“Ich habe mich entschieden.” – “I’ve decided.”
“Hast du dich schon entschieden?” – “Have you decided yet?”

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