kommen

From Proto-Germanic *kwemaną.

kommen

1. to come
   • 1562, Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq:

     Kommen. Venire.

From Latin cuminum.

kommen c (singular definite kommenen, not used in plural form)

1. caraway

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• Rhymes: -ɔmən

kommen

1. Plural form of kom

kommen

1. (Brabant, Limburg, informal) Alternative form of komen

• komen, kumen, kummen (all obsolete)

From Middle High German komen, kumen, from Old High German kweman (rarer cuman, chuman), from Proto-Germanic *kwemaną, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷem-. Cognate with Low German kamen, Dutch komen, English come, Danish komme.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɔmən/, [ˈkɔmən], [ˈkɔmm̩]

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• Hyphenation: kom‧men

kommen (class 4 strong, third-person singular simple present kommt, past tense kam, past participle gekommen, past subjunctive käme, auxiliary sein)

1. (intransitive) to come; to arrive

   Er kam letzte Nacht sehr spät nach Hause. ― He came home very late last night.

   Als ich nach Wuppertal kam, hatte es gerade geschneit ― When I arrived in Wuppertal, it had just snowed.

2. (intransitive) to come to; to come over (go somewhere so as to join someone else)

   Bleib sitzen! Ich komme zu dir. ― Keep your seat! I’m coming over to you.

   Und viele kamen zu ihm und sprachen... ― And many resorted unto him and said...

   (John 10:41)

3. (intransitive) to get; to make it (go somewhere in a way that implies an obstacle or difficulty to be overcome)

   Ich komme nicht über die Mauer. ― I can’t get over this wall.

   Wenn er den Zug verpasst, kommt er heute nicht nach Nürnberg. ― If he misses the train, he won’t make it to Nuremberg today.

4. (intransitive) to go to; to be put in (go somewhere in a way that is predetermined or prearranged)

   Hartnäckige Sünder kommen in die Hölle. ― Persistant sinners will go to hell.

   Die Gruppensieger kommen ins Halbfinale. ― The group winners will go to the semifinals.

5. (intransitive) to come on

   Ach komm, das wird so schlimm nicht werden. ― Aw, come on, it won’t be so bad.

   Kommt, deckt schon mal den Tisch! ― Come on, just set the table already.

6. (intransitive, impersonal) to occur; to happen; to come to be

   Dann kam, was alle befürchtet hatten. ― Then happened that which everybody had feared.

   Wie kommt es, dass...? ― Why is it that ...? How come that...?

7. (intransitive) to be played (of a song or film)

   Eben kam mein Lieblingslied. ― They just played my favourite song.

8. (intransitive, with von or durch) to be due to; to be the result of

   Das kommt alles von deiner Faulheit. ― All of that is due to your laziness.

9. (intransitive, with aus + dative) to come from (to have a social or geographic background)

   Sie kommt aus der Schweiz. ― She comes from Switzerland.

   Sie kommt aus einer Diplomatenfamilie. ― She comes a family of diplomats.

10. (intransitive, personal or impersonal + dative) to orgasm; to cum

    Ich komme gleich! ― I’m about to cum!

    Mir kommt's gleich! ― I’m about to cum!

11. (intransitive, with auf + accusative) to be statistically equivalent to; to be there for

    Auf jeden Verkehrstoten kommen zwanzig Verletzte.

    For each traffic fatality there are twenty injured people.

12. (intransitive, with auf + accusative) to obtain (a solution or result)

    Die Werte wurden frisiert, um auf das gewünschte Ergebnis zu kommen.

    The values were manipulated in order to obtain the desired result.

13. (intransitive, with auf + accusative) to get an idea; to think of; to remember; to imagine

    Ich komme im Moment nicht drauf, aber ich sag’s dir später.

    I can’t think of it right now, but I’ll tell you later.

    Ich weiß wirklich nicht, wie du immer auf diese Einfälle kommst.

    I really don’t know how you always get all those ideas.

14. (intransitive, with um) to lose; to forfeit; not to get

    Er hat Angst, dass er um seinen Anteil kommt.

    He fears that he won’t get his share.

• In dialectal usage, and in archaic written style, the 2nd and 3rd person singular forms of the present may have umlaut: du kömmst, er kömmt.

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From Old High German kweman, from Proto-Germanic *kwemaną. Cognate with German kommen, Dutch komen, English come.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkomən/

kommen (third-person singular present kënnt, preterite koum, past participle komm, past subjunctive kéim, auxiliary verb sinn)

1. to come

kommen

1. past participle of komma.
2. Obsolete plural form of kommer, present tense of komma. 2nd person only.
3. Obsolete plural form of kom, imperative of komma. 2nd person only.

   Upp, alla I som ären törstiga, kommen hit och fån vatten

   Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters (Isaiah 55:1)