nehmen

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