nehmen

  1. (class-4, strong, transitive) to take (something into one's possession or on one's body)
  2. (class-4, ditransitive, strong) to take from
  3. (class-4, strong, transitive) to hold (in one's hands), to grasp
  4. (class-4, strong, transitive) to take, to consider (a statement, a situation, an idea, etc, in a certain way, for example seriously, badly, personally)
  5. (class-4, strong, transitive) to capture, to arrest
  6. (class-4, strong, transitive) to ingest (e.g. a pill)
  7. (class-4, strong, transitive) to move into, to sit at (one's assigned position)
  8. (class-4, dative, reflexive, strong, transitive) to use (time, effort, etc. for a specific purpose)
  9. (class-4, strong, transitive) To begin or cause the action implied by a noun to take place, possibly making the sentence more passive or indirect.
  10. (class-4, reflexive, strong) to cause oneself to be (in some state); to become; to take oneself (to some state)
  11. (class-4, strong, transitive) to seize, to capture
  12. (class-4, strong, transitive) to receive, to accept
  13. (class-4, strong, transitive) to foul

Frequency

A1
Dialects

Bern

Bern

näh

Zürich

Zürich

neh

Zürich

Zürich

näh

St. Gallen

St. Gallen

neh

Aargau

Aargau

neh

Aargau

Aargau

näh

Basel-Stadt

Basel-Stadt

näh

Zug

Zug

näh

Lucerne

Lucerne

Basel-Landschaft

Basel-Landschaft

näh

Basel-Landschaft

Basel-Landschaft

neh

Lucerne

Lucerne

näh

St. Gallen

St. Gallen

näh

Solothurn

Solothurn

näh

Thurgau

Thurgau

neh

Zürich

Zürich

Fribourg

Fribourg

näh

Graubünden

Graubünden

ne

Graubünden

Graubünden

näh

Bern

Bern

Appenzell Innerrhoden

Appenzell Innerrhoden

neme

Obwalden

Obwalden

Appenzell Ausserrhoden

Appenzell Ausserrhoden

neh

Appenzell Innerrhoden

Appenzell Innerrhoden

neh

St. Gallen

St. Gallen

nììa

Schaffhausen

Schaffhausen

näh

Schwyz

Schwyz

näh

Zürich

Zürich

nimme

Solothurn

Solothurn

nää

Zürich

Zürich

nee

Valais

Valais

näh

Appenzell Ausserrhoden

Appenzell Ausserrhoden

ne

Bern

Bern

nimme

Zug

Zug

neeh

Zug

Zug

neh

Basel-Landschaft

Basel-Landschaft

nää

Basel-Landschaft

Basel-Landschaft

nämme

Bern

Bern

nää

Basel-Stadt

Basel-Stadt

nää

Data provided by: Deutsch-Schweizerdeutsches Wörterbuch

Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈneːmən/
Etymology

In summary

Inherited from Middle High German nëmen, from Old High German nëman, from Proto-West Germanic *neman, from Proto-Germanic *nemaną, from Proto-Indo-European *nem- (“to give or take ones due”). Cognate with Low German nehmen (“to take”), Dutch nemen (“to take”), English nim (“to take, filch”), Danish nemme (“to learn, grasp”), Swedish förnimma (“to perceive”). More at nim.

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