stecken

put

verb SHTE-ken Less Common

Also means

be stuck

Usage Note

stecken has a transitive sense 'to put/insert' (den Schlüssel ins Schloss stecken) and an intransitive sense 'to be stuck' (im Stau stecken, to be stuck in traffic). The idiom dahinterstecken means 'to be behind something'.

Examples

"Steck den Brief in den Umschlag."

Natural Translation

Put the letter in the envelope.

Literal Translation

Put the letter in the envelope.

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