umsehen
German
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈʊmˌzeːən]
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: um‧se‧hen
Verb
umsehen (class 5 strong, third-person singular present sieht um, past tense sah um, past participle umgesehen, past subjunctive sähe um, auxiliary haben)
- (reflexive) to look around
- 1919, Walther Kabel, Irrende Seelen, Werner Dietsch Verlag, page 14:
- Langsam durchschritt ich die Reihen der weißen Marmortischchen, nach einem freien Platz mich umsehend.
- Slowly I crossed the rows of the white small marble tables, looking around for a free space.
- (reflexive) to look back, to look round
- 1918, Meinrad Lienert, “Die Königstöchter und der Hirsch”, in Zürcher Sagen:
- Dann wandte er sich, sah sich um und ging wieder langsam davon.
- Then he turned around, looked back and slowly walked away again.
Conjugation
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Synonyms
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