lösen

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See also: losen and Losen

German[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Middle High German and Old High German lōsen, from Proto-West Germanic *lausijan.

Cognate with Dutch lozen, English loose (from Old Norse lauss), obsolete English leese (from Old English līesan); also Danish løse, Faroese loysa, Icelandic leysa (to loosen, to resolve, to untie), Norwegian løse and Swedish lösa (all from the Old Norse leysa).

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): [ˈløːzn̩], [ˈløːzən]
  • (file)

Verb[edit]

lösen (weak, third-person singular present löst, past tense löste, past participle gelöst, auxiliary haben)

  1. (transitive) to loose; to loosen; to detach; to remove
    (etwas) von (etwas anderes) lösen"to remove (something) from (something else)"
  2. (transitive) to separate
    • 2010, Der Spiegel[1], number 35/2010, page 96:
      Viele Gewässer sind mit Quecksilber belastet, das die Goldsucher einsetzen, um das Metall vom Gestein zu lösen.
      Many waters are polluted with mercury, which is used by gold diggers to separate the metal from the rock.
  3. (transitive) to cast off; to remove
  4. (transitive, of a problem, puzzle, question, conflict, figuratively) to solve; to resolve; to answer
  5. (reflexive) to come loose
  6. (reflexive) to dissolve
  7. (of a ticket) to buy
    eine Fahrkarte lösento buy a ticket
  8. (transitive) to release; to undo; to untie; to ease
  9. (transitive, of a relationship, figuratively) to dissolve; to disband; to break up; to end

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Further reading[edit]

  • lösen” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
  • lösen” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
  • lösen” in Duden online
  • lösen” in OpenThesaurus.de

Swedish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Old Swedish lø̄sn, from Old Norse lausn from Proto-Germanic *lausīniz. Cognate of Danish løsen and Icelandic lausn.

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Noun[edit]

lösen c

  1. ransom
    Synonym: lösensumma
  2. password
    Synonym: lösenord

Declension[edit]

Declension of lösen 
Uncountable
Indefinite Definite
Nominative lösen lösen
Genitive lösens lösens

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