nehmen
Am Stammtisch nahmen und nehmen viele Künstler 🧑🎨 und Schriftsteller teil .
Many artists and writers took part in the regulars' table.
- (class-4, strong, transitive) to take (something into one's possession or on one's body)
- (class-4, ditransitive, strong) to take from
- (class-4, strong, transitive) to hold (in one's hands), to grasp
- (class-4, strong, transitive) to take, to consider (a statement, a situation, an idea, etc, in a certain way, for example seriously, badly, personally)
- (class-4, strong, transitive) to capture, to arrest
- (class-4, strong, transitive) to ingest (e.g. a pill)
- (class-4, strong, transitive) to move into, to sit at (one's assigned position)
- (class-4, dative, reflexive, strong, transitive) to use (time, effort, etc. for a specific purpose)
- (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.
- (class-4, reflexive, strong) to cause oneself to be (in some state); to become; to take oneself (to some state)
- (class-4, strong, transitive) to seize, to capture
- (class-4, strong, transitive) to receive, to accept
- (class-4, strong, transitive) to foul
Frequency
Dialects
Bern
näh
Zürich
neh
Zürich
näh
St. Gallen
neh
Aargau
neh
Aargau
näh
Basel-Stadt
näh
Zug
näh
Lucerne
nä
Basel-Landschaft
näh
Basel-Landschaft
neh
Lucerne
näh
St. Gallen
näh
Solothurn
näh
Thurgau
neh
Zürich
nä
Fribourg
näh
Graubünden
ne
Graubünden
näh
Bern
nä
Appenzell Innerrhoden
neme
Obwalden
nä
Appenzell Ausserrhoden
neh
Appenzell Innerrhoden
neh
St. Gallen
nììa
Schaffhausen
näh
Schwyz
näh
Zürich
nimme
Solothurn
nää
Zürich
nee
Valais
näh
Appenzell Ausserrhoden
ne
Bern
nimme
Zug
neeh
Zug
neh
Basel-Landschaft
nää
Basel-Landschaft
nämme
Bern
nää
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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