essen

See also: Essen and èssen

Alemannic German

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old High German ezzan, from Proto-Germanic *etaną. Cognate with German essen, Dutch eten, English eat, Swedish äta.

Verb

essen

  1. (Issime) to eat

References

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • (file)

Noun

essen

  1. plural of es

German

Etymology

From Middle High German ezzen, from Old High German ezzan, from Proto-West Germanic *etan, from Proto-Germanic *etaną, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ed-.

Cognate with Low German eten, Dutch eten, English eat, Danish æde, Norwegian ete, Swedish äta, Yiddish עסן‎ (esn) and Gothic 𐌹𐍄𐌰𐌽 (itan). Non-Germanic cognates include Latin edō, Russian есть (jestʹ), Scottish Gaelic ith.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɛsən/, [ˈʔɛsn̩]
  • (file)
  • (file)
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -ɛsən

Verb

essen (class 5 strong, third-person singular present isst, past tense aß, past participle gegessen, past subjunctive äße, auxiliary haben)

  1. (transitive) to eat
    Er isst gern Schokolade.
    He likes eating chocolate.
    Ich esse einen Apfel.
    I am eating an apple.
  2. (intransitive) to eat; to dine
    Wir haben noch nicht gegessen.
    We have not eaten yet.
    Sie haben immer vor 9 Uhr abends gegessen.
    They always ate before 9 o’clock in the evening.

Usage notes

  • In obsolete usage, the past participle was frequently gessen, which is still used in Austria.

Conjugation

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Further reading

  • “essen” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
  • “essen” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
  • “essen” in Duden online
  • “essen” in OpenThesaurus.de
  • essen on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de

Hungarian

Alternative forms

  • essék (archaic, today mostly in fixed phrases)

Etymology

From the es- stem of esik +‎ -jen.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈɛʃːɛn]
  • Hyphenation: es‧sen

Verb

essen

  1. third-person singular subjunctive present indefinite of esik

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

Noun

essen n or m

  1. definite masculine singular of ess

Swedish

Noun

essen

  1. definite plural of ess
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