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zusammen

adv · /tsuˈzamən/ ·
Etymology

From Middle High German zesamene, zesamne, zesamen (“together”), from Old High German zisamane (“together”). From zu- (“to”) + sammen (“together”) (in Modern German, sammen is only found in compounds), from Proto-West Germanic *saman, from Proto-Germanic *samanai (“together”), from Proto-Indo-European *sem- (“together, one”). Cognate with Middle English to-samen (“together”). Related to obsolete English sam (“together”), whose earlier form was samen. Dutch tezamen (“together”) has been formed in a similar fashion, with its contracted form being samen and its ancestral form tsamen. Also cognate with Scots samin (“together”), Danish sammen (“together”), Swedish samman (“together”).

Translation

  1. together, jointly

    Zusammen bilden wir ein gutes Team.

    Together we make a good team.

    1903, Fanny zu Reventlow, Ellen Olestjerne, in Franziska Gräfin zu Reventlow: Gesammelte Werke, Albert Langen, page 526

    Despite all these bitter feelings, it was yet a wonderfully beautiful summer, which the three friends spent together.

    Wir müssen lernen, als Brüder zusammen zu leben, oder wir werden als Narren zusammen untergehen.

    We must learn to live together as brothers, or we will perish together as fools.

  2. summarily source:wikdict-en-de-stardict

zusammen

adj · /tsuˈzamən/ ·
Etymology

From Middle High German zesamene, zesamne, zesamen (“together”), from Old High German zisamane (“together”). From zu- (“to”) + sammen (“together”) (in Modern German, sammen is only found in compounds), from Proto-West Germanic *saman, from Proto-Germanic *samanai (“together”), from Proto-Indo-European *sem- (“together, one”). Cognate with Middle English to-samen (“together”). Related to obsolete English sam (“together”), whose earlier form was samen. Dutch tezamen (“together”) has been formed in a similar fashion, with its contracted form being samen and its ancestral form tsamen. Also cognate with Scots samin (“together”), Danish sammen (“together”), Swedish samman (“together”).

Translation

  1. together, in the same place indeclinable, predicative
  2. contiguous source:wikdict-en-de-stardict
  3. in a romantic relationship with each other indeclinable, informal, predicative

zusammen

verb ·

Translation

  1. all told source:freedict-eng-deu-dictd
  2. together source:dictcc-tuchemnitz-de-en