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German
Etymology
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
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
1Rare except in very formal contexts; alternative in würde normally preferred.
Composed forms of
lösen (
weak, auxiliary
haben)
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
- ransom
- Synonym: lösensumma
- password
- Synonym: lösenord
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