So gut aussehen, dass alle daneben schlechter wirken.
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See how the word “Ausstechen” is used in sentences
Auf diesem Foto sticht er alle aus. — He's mogging everyone in that photo.
Hör auf, deinen kleinen Bruder auf jedem Bild auszustechen. — Stop mogging your little brother in every picture.
Sie stach den ganzen Raum aus, ohne es zu versuchen. — She was mogging the whole room without even trying.
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Download the app for free German vocabulary testAusstechen is the closest German comes, and it is an older image than the English one: aus plus stechen, to cut out with a die — the verb for cutting biscuits out of dough, and by extension for outdoing a rival. It has been in the language for centuries and carries no internet flavour at all.
The new English sense of mogging, outshining people by looks alone, has no German word yet. Younger speakers use the English verb outright — er moggt alle — or say er stellt alle in den Schatten, he puts everyone in the shade.
stechen to sting, to stab, to cut
The base verb, and one of the most polysemous in German: a bee stings, a knife stabs, a die cuts.
übertreffen to surpass
Neutral and about achievement, not appearance.
in den Schatten stellen to overshadow
The idiomatic option, and the closest in feeling to the English mogging.
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