No. 15,872 in German
überschätzen
To overestimate.
In a sentence
Ich glaube, wir haben ihre Fähigkeiten in dieser Situation überschätzt.
I believe we have overestimated their abilities in this situation.
The verb "überschätzen" is used to indicate having an estimate of someone's abilities that is too high, leading to a misconception.
Man sollte die Schwierigkeit dieser Aufgabe nicht überschätzen.
One should not overestimate the difficulty of this task.
Here, "überschätzen" serves as a warning against evaluating the difficulty of the task as greater than it actually is.
Es ist leicht, den Einfluss kleiner Veränderungen zu überschätzen.
It is easy to overestimate the impact of small changes.
In this sentence, "überschätzen" is utilized to convey the idea of thinking that small changes have a larger impact than they realistically do.
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