drüben
German
Etymology
From earlier darüben.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈdryːbm̩/, /ˈdryːbən/
Adverb
drüben
- over there
- 1924, Kurt Tucholsky, Vor Verdun, in: Die Weltbühne, volume 20, no. 32, Verlag der Weltbühne, page 219:
- Hier war das Niemandsland: drüben auf der Höhe lagen die Deutschen, hüben die Franzosen – dies war unbesetzt.
- Here was the no man's land, over there on the height were the Germans, over here the French – this was unoccupied.
- Hier war das Niemandsland: drüben auf der Höhe lagen die Deutschen, hüben die Franzosen – dies war unbesetzt.
- 1924, Kurt Tucholsky, Vor Verdun, in: Die Weltbühne, volume 20, no. 32, Verlag der Weltbühne, page 219:
- on the other side
- Either the (former) GDR or pre-1990 BRD, both as political entities and as geographical regions. The term describes the entity/area from which the speaker does not hail.
Derived terms
- hüben und drüben
- hüben wie drüben
Further reading
- drüben in Duden online
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