lösen

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See also: losen and Losen

German

Etymology

From Middle High German lœsen, lōsen, from 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

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

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, 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

Conjugation

More information infinitive, present participle ...
infinitive lösen
present participle lösend
past participle gelöst
auxiliary haben
indicative subjunctive
singular plural singular plural
present ich löse wir lösen i ich löse wir lösen
du löst ihr löst du lösest ihr löset
er löst sie lösen er löse sie lösen
preterite ich löste wir lösten ii ich löste1 wir lösten1
du löstest ihr löstet du löstest1 ihr löstet1
er löste sie lösten er löste1 sie lösten1
imperative lös (du)
löse (du)
löst (ihr)
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Derived terms

Further reading

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

Swedish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Noun

lösen c

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

Declension

More information nominative, genitive ...
Declension of lösen
nominative genitive
singular indefinite lösen lösens
definite lösen lösens
plural indefinite
definite
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