Would it also be acceptable to say “abgestellt” here, i.e. with the meaning “where did you set them down”? Or would this not be natural?
abstellen is used for larger objekts that actually stand (like a glass of water as a minimum). glasses lie, their surface is (relative to their height) too big to say abstellen
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Thank you so much! This is exactly the sort of “hidden internal logic” that it would have taken me a lot longer to figure out on my own, but that gets at the essence of how these words are used!