Today’s discovery was of a verb that has a similar set of both positive and negative connotations in German as in English: ausnutzen. You can use it, as someone did today, to refer to “taking advantage of or making the most of something” like good weather (which we are certainly having here in Hamburg). However, it can also mean that you are “taking advantage of someone” or “exploiting” them.
It sure is nice when one can “take advantage” of connections between your native tongue and the one you are trying to learn!
Earthquake Words/Erdbeben Wörter 