"neben" meaning in German

See neben in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Preposition

IPA: /ˈneːbən/, /ˈneːbm̩/ [Germany], /ˈneːbɛn/, /ˈneːbm̩/, [-b̥ɛn] [Austria, Southern-Germany, Switzerland] Audio: De-neben.ogg [Germany], De-neben2.ogg [Germany, Berlin], De-neben3.ogg [Germany, Berlin], De-at-neben.ogg [Austria] Forms: no-table-tags [table-tags], neben [prepositional], woneben [error-unrecognized-form], daneben [error-unrecognized-form], hierneben [error-unrecognized-form]
Etymology: Inherited from Middle High German nëben, enëben, from Old High German in ebanī. Cognate with Dutch neven, compare also English anent. Etymology templates: {{yesno||i|I}} I, {{glossary|Inherited}} Inherited, {{inh|de|gmh|nëben|||g=|g2=|g3=|id=|lit=|nocat=|pos=|sc=|sort=|tr=|ts=}} Middle High German nëben, {{inh+|de|gmh|nëben}} Inherited from Middle High German nëben, {{der|de|goh|in ebanī}} Old High German in ebanī, {{cog|nl|neven}} Dutch neven, {{cog|en|anent}} English anent Head templates: {{head|de|preposition}} neben
  1. next to, beside, alongside, adjacent to, near, near to
    Sense id: en-neben-de-prep-AwreL~VV
  2. in addition to, besides, alongside, apart from, aside from, among, amongst, on top of
    Sense id: en-neben-de-prep-TVRmV67R Categories (other): Pages using invalid parameters when calling Template:de-pronadv-table Disambiguation of Pages using invalid parameters when calling Template:de-pronadv-table: 17 8 36 40
  3. compared with
    Sense id: en-neben-de-prep-L5bcTWzz Categories (other): Pages using invalid parameters when calling Template:de-pronadv-table, Pages with entries, German entries with incorrect language header, German prepositions, German prepositions governing the accusative, German prepositions governing the dative Disambiguation of Pages using invalid parameters when calling Template:de-pronadv-table: 17 8 36 40 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 32 0 26 42 Disambiguation of German entries with incorrect language header: 2 41 57 Disambiguation of German prepositions: 27 29 43 Disambiguation of German prepositions governing the accusative: 10 23 67 Disambiguation of German prepositions governing the dative: 10 23 67
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: neben-, nebenan, nebenbei, nebeneinander, nebenher
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable German dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-10-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-09-02 using wiktextract (1a05e46 and e3d6d4e). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.