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- Perfect (spoken past): ist losgefahrenPreterite (written past): fuhr lossee details >
- Perfect (spoken past): ist losgegangenPreterite (written past): ging lossee details >2.
- to begin
- (for all kinds of events like a movie or ... uh... a series)
- Perfect (spoken past): hat losgekommenPreterite (written past): kam lossee details >1.
- to get of, to part with
- (In the sense of being able to separate yourself from something. It can be a location, but also drugs or an affaire)
- Perfect (spoken past): hat losgelachtPreterite (written past): lachte lossee details >1.
- to start laughing
- Perfect (spoken past): hat losgelassenPreterite (written past): ließ lossee details >1.
- to drop, to let go
- (as in "stop holding", work in a literal context of "holding a glass" as well as a metaphorical letting go of an ex.)
Opposite (closest): festhalten - Perfect (spoken past): hat losgelegtPreterite (written past): legte lossee details >1.
- to start, to get started
- (Colloquial term for someone starting to do something. Only for momentary actions, so not for starting a new habit.)
- Perfect (spoken past): hat losgemachtPreterite (written past): machte los1.
- to head out, to leave (very colloquial)
see details >2.- make loose
- (usually for dogs or boats or other things that are on a leash)
- Perfect (spoken past): hat losgeschicktPreterite (written past): schickte lossee details >1.
- to send out
- (Sounds colloquial for mail. More common for sending a person somewhere. Think of a manager sending the intern to get lunch.)
- Perfect (spoken past): hat losgeschossenPreterite (written past): schoss los1.
- to start firing
- (With guns. Rarely used in that sense. Past tense is built with "haben")
2.- to race off
- (Get going really quickly)
see details >3.- to go ahead
- (In the sense of someone starting to tell a story. Quite common as the phrase „Schieß los.“ in the sense of „Tell me.“)
- Perfect (spoken past): hat losgeschnittenPreterite (written past): schnitt lossee details >1.
- to cut loose
- (only in a literal sense, NOT for the figurative English "cut someone loose")
- Perfect (spoken past): ist losgewordenPreterite (written past): wurde lossee details >1.
- to get rid of
- (With a focus on managing to get rid of it.)
Here's a quick overview with translations. For family, examples and more check the details.
