entnehmen

German

Etymology

Inherited from Middle High German entnëmen, from Old High German intneman. Equivalent to ent- (from) +‎ nehmen (take).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ʔɛntˈneːmən]
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: ent‧neh‧men

Verb

entnehmen (class 4 strong, third-person singular present entnimmt, past tense entnahm, past participle entnommen, past subjunctive entnähme, auxiliary haben) (transitive) [with dative or aus (+ dative) ‘from something’]

  1. (formal) to take out, to remove (from a container or receptacle, into one's possession)
    Synonyms: herausnehmen, nehmen
    Bitte Karte entnehmenPlease remove card
  2. to take, to draw, to extract (from a source)
    Blut entnehmento withdraw blood
  3. to learn from, to conclude, to tell (a fact or conclusion from the observation or perusal of something)
    Deinem Schweigen kann ich entnehmen, dass nicht einverstanden bist.
    From your silence I can tell that you don't agree.

Conjugation

Further reading

  • entnehmen” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
  • entnehmen” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
  • entnehmen” in Duden online
  • entnehmen” in OpenThesaurus.de