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essen

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See also: Essen and èssen

Alemannic German

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Verb

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essen

  1. (Issime) alternative form of ässe (“to eat”)

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Dutch

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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essen

  1. plural of es

German

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Etymology

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From Middle High German ëȥȥen, from Old High German ëȥȥan, from Proto-West Germanic *etan, from Proto-Germanic *etaną, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ed-.

Cognate with Low German eten, Alemannic German ässe, Dutch eten, English eat, Danish æde, Norwegian ete, Swedish äta, Yiddish עסן (esn) and Gothic 𐌹𐍄𐌰𐌽 (itan). Non-Germanic cognates include Latin edō, Russian есть (jestʹ), Scottish Gaelic ith.

Pronunciation

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Verb

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essen (class 5 strong, third-person singular present isst, past tense aß, past participle gegessen or (obsolete) gessen, past subjunctive äße, auxiliary haben)

  1. (transitive) to eat
    Er isst gern Schokolade.
    He likes eating chocolate.
    Ich esse einen Apfel.
    I am eating an apple.
  2. (intransitive) to eat; to dine
    Wir haben noch nicht gegessen.
    We have not eaten yet.
    Sie haben immer vor 9 Uhr abends gegessen.
    They always ate before 9 o’clock in the evening.

Usage notes

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  • In obsolete usage, the past participle was frequently gessen, which is still used in Austria.

Conjugation

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Synonyms

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Derived terms

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Further reading

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  • “essen”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎[1] (in German)
  • “essen” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
  • “essen” in Duden online
  • “essen” in OpenThesaurus.de
  • essen on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de

Hungarian

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Alternative forms

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  • essék (archaic, today mostly in fixed phrases)

Etymology

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From the es- stem of esik +‎ -jen.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈɛʃːɛn]
  • Hyphenation: es‧sen

Verb

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essen

  1. third-person singular subjunctive present indefinite of esik

Norwegian Nynorsk

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Alternative forms

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Noun

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essen n or m

  1. definite masculine singular of ess

Old Occitan

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Verb

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essen

  1. present participle of esser

Swedish

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Noun

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essen

  1. definite plural of ess