essen

• asse, assu, ässe, ässä

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

essen

1. (Issime) to eat

• Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Luserna / Lusérn: Le nostre parole / Ünsarne börtar / Unsere Wörter [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

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essen

1. plural of es

From Middle High German ezzen, from Old High German ezzan, 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.

• IPA^(key): [ˈʔɛsn̩], /ˈɛsən/

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• Hyphenation: es‧sen
• Rhymes: -ɛsn̩, -ɛsən

essen (class 5 strong, third-person singular present isst, past tense aß, 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.

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

• fressen (for animals)
• genießen
• speisen

• auswärts essen — to eat out
• essbar
• Esser
• essgestört
• zu Mittag essen — to have lunch
• zu Abend essen — to have dinner, to have tea (Br.)
• Ess-Brech-Sucht
• Esslöffel m
• Essstäbchen pl
• Essstörung
• Esstisch m
• Esssucht
• Esszimmer n

• Essen n

• “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

• essék (archaic, today mostly in fixed phrases)

From the es- stem of esik +‎ -jen.

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

essen

1. third-person singular subjunctive present indefinite of esik

• esset

essen n or m

1. definite masculine singular of ess

essen

1. definite plural of ess