dasein

See also: Dasein and da sein

English

Alternative forms

• Dasein

Etymology

From German Dasein (“there-to be”), from da (“there”) +‎ sein (“to be”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /dɑː.zʌɪn/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /dɑ.zaɪn/

Noun

dasein (uncountable)

1. (philosophy) Being; especially the nature of being; existence, presence, hereness, suchness, essence
   • 1954, Otto Samuel, “The Relationship of Hereness Dasein”, in A Foundation of Ontology: A Critical Analysis of Nicolai Hartmann‎^[1], Digitized edition (Philosophy), Philosophical Library, published 2008, page 62:

     Hereness (Dasein) might be perhaps be called more expediently, Now-Being (Jetztsein), ...

Usage notes

Used by Goethe and adopted by Hegel. Further adopted and reinterpreted by Martin Heidegger in his "Being and Time".

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:existence

Translations

philosophy: hereness

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 此在 (cǐzài), 緣在 / 缘在 (yuánzài)

• Dutch: daarzijn n
• Finnish: Dasein, olemistapa
• French: dasein m
• German: Dasein (de) n
• Japanese: 現存在 (げんそんざい)
• Occitan: dasein m
• Russian: даза́йн (dazájn), прису́тствие (ru) (prisútstvije)

Anagrams

• Daines, Sinead, Dianes, Sinéad, andies, sained, saiden, Sendai, Dansie, Sandie, Asenid

German

Verb

dasein

1. Formerly standard spelling of da sein which was deprecated in the spelling reform (Rechtschreibreform) of 1996.