lösen

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).

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

(transitive) to loose; to loosen; to detach; to remove
(etwas) von (etwas anderes) lösen ― "to remove (something) from (something else)"
(transitive) to separate
- 2010, Der Spiegel‎, 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.
(transitive) to cast off; to remove
(transitive, of a problem, puzzle, question, conflict, figuratively) to solve; to resolve; to answer
(reflexive) to come loose
(reflexive) to dissolve
(of a ticket) to buy
eine Fahrkarte lösen ― to buy a ticket
(transitive) to release; to undo; to untie; to ease
(transitive, of a relationship, figuratively) to dissolve; to disband; to break up; to end

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Conjugation of lösen (weak, auxiliary haben)

¹Rare except in very formal contexts; alternative in würde normally preferred.

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Composed forms of lösen (weak, auxiliary haben)

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