Note
Oooh here I opened a can of worms... aufstehen is a combination of two words glued together. Germans like glueing words together. We even have special word glueing games. But I leave that for later :D
What is glued however can also be 'unglued ' again....
Let's look at our example
aufstehen = auf (up) + stehen (to stand).
Together it means: to get up / to stand up
if we use it together with a second verb, nothing bad happens
I want to aufstehen
I have to aufstehen
I dream of aufstehen
But -here comes the tricky part- when we use aufstehen alone, it splits up and you ll never know where the different bits go in the sentence (I know of course :D)
I get up - Ich stehe auf.
I get up in the morning: Morgens stehe ich auf. or Ich stehe morgens auf.
Usages of aufstehen
Morgens steht er auf.
In the morning he gets up.
Er steht früh auf.
He gets up early.
Dann steht er auf.
Then he gets up.
Dann steht er wieder auf.
Then he gets up again.
Morgens stehe ich auf.
I get up in the morning.
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