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zusammen.

together, jointly

8 characters3 syllables approx.Deutsch language

Meaning & usage

adv/tsuˈzamən/[tsuˈzamən][tsuˈzamm̩]Germany/tsəˈzamən/colloquial, variant

  1. together, jointly

    Zusammen bilden wir ein gutes Team.
Where this word comes from

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 Low German tosamen (“together”), Middle English tosamen (“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”).

adj/tsuˈzamən/[tsuˈzamən][tsuˈzamm̩]Germany/tsəˈzamən/colloquial, variant

  1. together, in the same place

    indeclinable · predicative

  2. in a romantic relationship with each other

    indeclinable · informal · predicative
Where this word comes from

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 Low German tosamen (“together”), Middle English tosamen (“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”).

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