See also: kümme

Central Franconian edit

Alternative forms edit

  • komme (many dialects)
  • kuun, kunn, konn (Ripuarian; some Moselle Franconian dialects; chiefly dated)

Etymology edit

From Middle High German quemen, from Old High German kweman, from Proto-West Germanic *kweman, from Proto-Germanic *kwemaną, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷémt. The form is a conflation of native kunn and German kommen.

Pronunciation edit

Verb edit

kumme (third-person singular present kütt, past tense kom, past participle jekumme)

  1. (some Ripuarian dialects, including Kölsch) to come
    • 1981, “Jraaduss”‎[1]performed by BAP:
      Manchmol setz ich eröm un ich frooch mich, woröm
      Et su kumme mot, wie et kom, wie et jetz es.
      Un ich saach mer, datt et irjendwo wiggerjonn moss – jradus.
      Sometimes I sit around and I wonder why
      It had to come the way it came, the way it is now.
      And I tell myself that somehow it has to go on – straight ahead.

Pali edit

Alternative forms edit

Noun edit

kumme

  1. inflection of kumma (tortoise):
    1. locative singular
    2. accusative plural

Pennsylvania German edit

Etymology edit

From Middle High German komen, from Old High German kweman. Compare German kommen, Dutch komen, English come.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

kumme

  1. to come

Conjugation edit