samen

Meaning

together

Hyphenated as

sa‧men

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈsaː.mə(n)/

Etymology

From Middle Dutch tsamen, a contraction of earlier tesamen, from te samen. Although not clear from the spelling, the ⟨s⟩ in the Middle Dutch word was pronounced as voiced /z/. That is, (te)samen was pronounced /(tə)zaːmən/, like the modern descendant tezamen and the related words gezamenlijk and verzamelen. The contracted form tsamen, however, had a voiceless /s/ because it was assimilated to the preceding /t/, creating an affricate. This affricate /ts/ was later simplified to /s/.
Middle Dutch samen derives from Old Dutch saman, from Proto-Germanic *samanai (“together”), from Proto-Indo-European *sem- (“one, together”). Compare also sommige and soms, from the zero grade of the same Indo-European root.

Sentences

Samen kunnen we de wereld aan !

Together we can take on the world!

Wat we beter samen kunnen doen , moeten we samen doen .

What we could do better together, we should.

We zullen dit samen aanpakken .

This is something which we shall tackle together.

Het koninklijk paar was samen aangekomen in Brussel .

The royal couple had arrived in Brussels together.

Als twee gehandicapte passagiers samen reizen , moeten ze apart zitten .

If two disabled passengers travel together they have to sit separately.

Laten we hiermee verder gaan , samen met de lidstaten .

Let's continue with this, together with the Member States.

Samen zongen ze het volkslied .

Together they sang the national anthem.

Max , Finn en Niels hebben samen de reünie georganiseerd .

Max, Finn and Niels organized the reunion together.