nehmen.
to take (something into one's possession or on one's body)
Meaning & usage
to take (something into one's possession or on one's body)
Wer hat meinen Hut genommen?
to take from
Die Niederlage nahm der Mannschaft den Mut.
to hold (in one's hands), to grasp
Hier, nimm meine Hand.
to take, to consider (a statement, a situation, an idea, etc, in a certain way, for example seriously, badly, personally)
Die Polizei nimmt die Angriffe ernst.
Ich nehme diese Bemerkung übel.
to capture, to arrest
Die Verbrecher wurden in Gewahrsam genommen.
to ingest (e.g. a pill)
Nimm etwas Aspirin, wenn du Kopfschmerzen hast.
to move into, to sit at (one's assigned position)
Meine Damen und Herren, bitte nehmen Sie Ihre Plätze.
to use (time, effort, etc. for a specific purpose)
Du solltest dir etwas Zeit nehmen, um dich zu entspannen.
To begin or cause the action implied by a noun to take place, possibly making the sentence more passive or indirect.
Abschied nehmen
Abstand nehmen
to cause oneself to be (in some state); to become; to take oneself (to some state)
Nimm dich in Acht!
to seize, to capture
to receive, to accept
to foul
Where this word comes from
Inherited from Middle High German nëmen, from Old High German nëman, from Proto-West Germanic *neman, from Proto-Germanic *nemaną, from Proto-Indo-European *nem- (“to give or take one's due”). Cognate with Low German nehmen (“to take”), Dutch nemen (“to take”), English nim (“to take, filch”), Danish nemme (“to learn, grasp”), Swedish förnimma (“to perceive”). More at nim, the native English equivalent of Old Norse-derived take.
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