abhandenkommen
German
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /apˈhandn̩ˌkɔmən/
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Verb
abhandenkommen (class 4 strong, third-person singular present kommt abhanden, past tense kam abhanden, past participle abhandengekommen, past subjunctive käme abhanden, auxiliary sein)
- to go missing, to lose
- Mir ist mein Computer abhandengekommen.
- I lost my computer.
- (literally, “My computer left my hands.”)
- 1901, “Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen [I am lost to the world]”, Friedrich Rückert (lyrics), Gustav Mahler (music):
- Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen, / Mit der ich sonst viele Zeit verdorben, / Sie hat so lange nichts von mir vernommen, / Sie mag wohl glauben, ich sei gestorben!
- I am lost to the world / With which I used to waste much time, / It has for so long known nothing of me, / It may well believe that I am dead.
Conjugation
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Further reading
- “abhandenkommen” in Duden online
- “abhandenkommen” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
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