[davidcalloway]

It is the bane of my existence that in German you cannot just put things in places. The word you would use for "put" depends on the physical relation of the objects involved.

Is it lying down ultimately? Hanging on? Standing upright?

And things don't sit on other things unless they literally have a chair.

Maybe it's not my children but the constant dealing with the German language that perpetually makes me feel exhausted.

[ryvi]

I mean you can just hintun something, which is very informal but literally means put something somewhere in every case.