No. 484 in German
essen
"To eat."
In a sentence
Ich esse jeden Morgen Brot.
I eat bread every morning.
Used as a present tense verb to indicate the action of eating.
Sie möchten in einem Restaurant essen.
They want to eat in a restaurant.
Used in the infinitive form to describe the activity of eating as an object of another verb.
Das Essen schmeckt sehr gut.
The food tastes very good.
Used as a noun to refer to a meal or food.
Hear it in real podcasts
The recording above is a synthetic voice. Hear how people say “essen” in actual German podcasts.
Find “essen” in podcastsLearn it from shows you like
LangTurbo plays German podcasts with a transcript and the English under every line. Tap a word like this one and it tells you what it means right there. For iPhone, iPad and Android.
Learning English?
LangTurbo plays real English podcasts with every line translated into Deutsch, and tells you what any word means in that sentence. For iPhone, iPad and Android.
German books and courses on Amazon (an affiliate link: a purchase through it supports this site).