Dasein
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Dasein (uncountable)
- Alternative form of dasein
- 2005, James Phillips, Heidegger's Volk: Between National Socialism and Poetry, Stanford University Press, →ISBN:
- 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.
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Etymology edit
Learned borrowing from German Dasein.
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Dasein
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Inflection of Dasein (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | Dasein | Daseinit | ||
genitive | Daseinin | Daseinien | ||
partitive | Daseinia | Daseineja | ||
illative | Daseiniin | Daseineihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | Dasein | Daseinit | ||
accusative | nom. | Dasein | Daseinit | |
gen. | Daseinin | |||
genitive | Daseinin | Daseinien | ||
partitive | Daseinia | Daseineja | ||
inessive | Daseinissa | Daseineissa | ||
elative | Daseinista | Daseineista | ||
illative | Daseiniin | Daseineihin | ||
adessive | Daseinilla | Daseineilla | ||
ablative | Daseinilta | Daseineilta | ||
allative | Daseinille | Daseineille | ||
essive | Daseinina | Daseineina | ||
translative | Daseiniksi | Daseineiksi | ||
abessive | Daseinitta | Daseineitta | ||
instructive | — | Daseinein | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
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Etymology edit
From da (“there”) + sein (“to be”).
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Noun edit
Dasein n (strong, genitive Daseins, plural Daseine)
- being there, presence, existence
- 1932, Carl von Ossietzky, Rückkehr, in: Die Weltbühne, volume 28, no. 52, Verlag der Weltbühne, page 925:
- Im Gefängnis gewesen sein, das ist ein großes Erlebnis, das kein politischer Mensch aus seinem Dasein streichen kann.
- Having been in prison, that is a great experience that no political man can eliminate from his existence.
- 1932, Carl von Ossietzky, Rückkehr, in: Die Weltbühne, volume 28, no. 52, Verlag der Weltbühne, page 925:
Declension edit
Declension of Dasein [neuter, strong]
Related terms edit
- Beamtendasein, Mauerblümchendasein, Nischendasein, Schattendasein, Singledasein
- Daseinsberechtigung, Daseinskampf, Daseinszweck