kommen

Meaning

(class-4,intransitive,strong) to come; to arrive
(class-4,intransitive,strong) to come to; to come over (go somewhere so as to join someone else)
(class-4,intransitive,strong) to get; to make it (go somewhere in a way that implies an obstacle or difficulty to be overcome)
(class-4,intransitive,strong) to go to; to be put in (go somewhere in a way that is predetermined or prearranged)
(class-4,imperative,intransitive,often,strong) to come on (used to encourage someone)
(class-4,impersonal,intransitive,strong) to occur; to happen; to come to be
(class-4,impersonal,strong) to be played (of a song or film)
(class-4,intransitive,strong) to be due to; to be the result of
(class-4,intransitive,strong) to come from (to have a social or geographic background)
(class-4,intransitive,strong) to orgasm; to cum
(class-4,impersonal,strong) to orgasm; for there to be cumming [with dative ‘by someone’] (idiomatically translated by English cum with the dative object as the subject)
(class-4,intransitive,strong) to be statistically equivalent to; to be there for
(class-4,intransitive,strong) to obtain (a solution or result)
(class-4,intransitive,strong) to get an idea; to think of; to remember; to imagine
(class-4,intransitive,strong) to lose; to forfeit; not to get
(class-4,intransitive,strong) to touch inadvertently
(class-4,intransitive,strong) to manage to reach (something high up etc.)
(class-4,informal,intransitive,strong) to come up with, to mention, cite, suggest
(class-4,colloquial,copulative,strong) to turn out

Frequency

Hyphenated as

kom‧men

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈkɔmən/

Etymology

From Middle High German komen, kumen, quemen, from Old High German queman (rarer cuman, chuman), from Proto-West Germanic *kweman, from Proto-Germanic *kwemaną, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷem-. Cognate with Low German kamen, Dutch komen, English come, Danish komme.