kommen

German (Berlin)

/ˈkɔmən/

verb-strong
Definitions
  • (intransitive) to come; to arrive
  • (intransitive) to come to; to come over go somewhere so as to join someone else
  • (intransitive) to get; to make it go somewhere in a way that implies an obstacle or difficulty to be overcome
  • (intransitive) to go to; to be put in go somewhere in a way that is predetermined or prearranged
  • (intransitive) to come on
  • (intransitive) to occur; to happen; to come to be
  • (intransitive) to be played (of a song or film)
  • (intransitive) to be due to; to be the result of
  • (intransitive) to come from to have a social or geographic background
  • (intransitive) to orgasm; to cum
  • (intransitive) to be statistically equivalent to; to be there for
  • (intransitive) to obtain (a solution or result)
  • (intransitive) to get an idea; to think of; to remember; to imagine
  • (intransitive) to lose; to forfeit; not to get
  • (intransitive) to touch inadvertently
  • (intransitive) to manage to reach (something high up etc.)

Etymology

Inherited from Middle High German komen inherited from Old High German kweman (come) inherited from Proto-Germanic *kwemaną (come).

Origin

Proto-Germanic

*kwemaną

Gloss

come

Concept
Semantic Field

Motion

Ontological Category

Action/Process

Kanji

Emoji

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