lösen
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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
Verb
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
Conjugation
| 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) | |||
1Rare except in very formal contexts; alternative in würde normally preferred.
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Etymology
From Old Swedish lø̄sn, from Old Norse lausn from Proto-Germanic *lausīniz. Cognate of Danish løsen and Icelandic lausn.
Pronunciation
Noun
lösen c
- ransom
- Synonym: lösensumma
- password
- Synonym: lösenord
Declension
| nominative | genitive | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | indefinite | lösen | lösens |
| definite | lösen | lösens | |
| plural | indefinite | — | — |
| definite | — | — |
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