nutzen
Sentences
Als dessen Westwand nutzen die Baumeister das mittelalterliche Mauerwerk der Stadtbefestigung.
As its west wall, the builders use the medieval masonry of the city fortification.
Meaning
- (transitive, weak) to make use of; to deploy; to exploit; to harness; to take (the opportunity of)
- (intransitive, transitive, weak) to be useful, to be of use, to do good
- (intransitive, transitive, weak) to benefit, to help, to do good to
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Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈnʊtsən/
Etymology
In summary
From Middle High German nutzen, nützen, from Old High German nuzzōn, -nuzzen (in ginuzzen), from Proto-Germanic *nutōną, *nutjōną, *nutjaną. Compare modern Nutzen (noun). The verb is originally restricted chiefly to Upper German and East Central German, the former preferring the form nutzen, the latter preferring nützen. By way of hypercorrection, nützen has now become a chiefly southern form. Low German and West Central German originally use other verbs, namely, brauchen for the transitive and batten for the intransitive function. These areas prefer nutzen in modern standard German.
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