“Verstehen” is German. Yiddish is a mishmosh of German, Polish, Hebrew and Russian and Goddess knows what else. It’s spelled more phonetically then its German equivalent, and the word is “Farshtayen” Similarly, the German word for "beautiful is “schone” (umlaut on the ‘o’); in Yiddish it’s the more easily read “shayna”. And so it goes.
“Verstehen” is German. Yiddish is a mishmosh of German, Polish, Hebrew and Russian and Goddess knows what else. It’s spelled more phonetically then its German equivalent, and the word is “Farshtayen” Similarly, the German word for "beautiful is “schone” (umlaut on the ‘o’); in Yiddish it’s the more easily read “shayna”. And so it goes.