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German
Etymology
Contraction of herunter (“down here”), semantically influenced by hinunter (“down there”).
Pronunciation
Adverb
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.
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Further reading
- “runter” in Duden online
- “runter” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache