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Meaning of dasein | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1
/dɑː.zʌɪn/

Definitions

Being; especially the nature of being; existence, presence, hereness, suchness, essence

uncountable

Equivalents

Deutsch dasein
Français Dasein
日本語 現存在
Nederlands daarzijn

Examples

“Hereness (Dasein) might be perhaps be called more expediently, Now-Being (Jetztsein), ...”
“Even in its failure, National Socialism refused to allow the question of Being to become the overt and pervasive question of Germany. It ensured that Dasein would either quickly find itself in its everydayness in the task of the reconstruction of an occupied Germany or not find itself, in death.”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.

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