See also: Essen and èssen

Alemannic German

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Old High German ëȥȥan, from Proto-Germanic *etaną. Cognate with German essen, Dutch eten, English eat, Swedish äta.

Verb

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essen

  1. (Issime) to eat

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Dutch

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Noun

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essen

  1. plural of es

German

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Etymology

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From Middle High German ëȥȥen, from Old High German ëȥȥan, from Proto-West Germanic *etan, from Proto-Germanic *etaną, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ed-.

Cognate with Low German eten, Dutch eten, English eat, Danish æde, Norwegian ete, Swedish äta, Yiddish עסן (esn) and Gothic 𐌹𐍄𐌰𐌽 (itan). Non-Germanic cognates include Latin edō, Russian есть (jestʹ), Scottish Gaelic ith.

Pronunciation

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Verb

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essen (class 5 strong, third-person singular present isst, past tense , past participle gegessen, past subjunctive äße, auxiliary haben)

  1. (transitive) to eat
    Er isst gern Schokolade.
    He likes eating chocolate.
    Ich esse einen Apfel.
    I am eating an apple.
  2. (intransitive) to eat; to dine
    Wir haben noch nicht gegessen.
    We have not eaten yet.
    Sie haben immer vor 9 Uhr abends gegessen.
    They always ate before 9 o’clock in the evening.

Usage notes

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  • In obsolete usage, the past participle was frequently gessen, which is still used in Austria.

Conjugation

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Synonyms

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Derived terms

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Further reading

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  • essen” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
  • essen” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
  • essen” in Duden online
  • essen” in OpenThesaurus.de
  •   essen on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de

Hungarian

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  • essék (archaic, today mostly in fixed phrases)

Etymology

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From the es- stem of esik +‎ -jen.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈɛʃːɛn]
  • Hyphenation: es‧sen

Verb

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essen

  1. third-person singular subjunctive present indefinite of esik

Norwegian Nynorsk

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Noun

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essen n or m

  1. definite masculine singular of ess

Swedish

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Noun

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essen

  1. definite plural of ess
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