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Wait a moment, “schlepped” is an english word and it means the same like carrying? Because it’s from german word “schleppen”.

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My guess would be that the word made it into the English vocabulary via Yiddish.

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It exists with different spellings in all the Scandinavian languages as well, borrowed from old Saxon.

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Makes sense. Thx.

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In English, it’s usually used in a context where there’s some humor, frustration, or irony involved, like in the comic.

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“I carried my equipment out to the car”

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“I schlepped all my brothers’ crap out to the car again”

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Okay that sounds familiar. Germans use it the same way. Carry means “tragen” and nobody would use “schleppen” in a serious sentence.

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Schleppen is an act of heavy carrying. So smb. carries (trägt) a pen from a to b. But smb. schleppt a 20kg canister of water from a to b.

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Waste of Trunk Space.

FTFY ❤️

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