drüben

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German[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From earlier darüben. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ˈdryːbm̩/, /ˈdryːbən/
  • (file)

Adverb[edit]

drüben

  1. (following da, hier or other location adverb) over (implying some distance from the listener)
    Ich bin's. Hier drüben!It's me. Over here!
  2. over there
    • 1924, Kurt Tucholsky, Vor Verdun, in: Die Weltbühne, volume 20, no. 32, Verlag der Weltbühne, page 219:
      Hier war das Niemandsland: drüben auf der Höhe lagen die Deutschen, hüben die Franzosen – dies war unbesetzt.
      Here was the no man's land, over there on the height were the Germans, over here the French – this was unoccupied.
    • 1995, “Drüben auf dem Hügel”, in Digital ist Besser, performed by Tocotronic:
      Drüben auf dem Hügel möchte ich warten / Im nassen Gras in unserem Schrebergarten
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
  3. on the other side
  4. (colloquial, historical) Either the (former) GDR or pre-1990 BRD, both as political entities and as geographical regions. The term describes the entity/area from which the speaker does not hail. The template Template:rfc-sense does not use the parameter(s):
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    (Can we clean up(+) this sense?)
    • 1981, “Von drüben”, in Stinker, performed by Marius Müller-Westernhagen:
      Guten Tag, ich bin Gerti aus der DDR / Drüben war ich ein großer Star / Jetzt hab ich 'nen westdeutschen Plattenvertrag / Denn drüben, da macht man ja doch keine Mark
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

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Further reading[edit]

  • drüben” in Duden online
  • drüben” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache