Znehmen

Znehmen is not a standard dictionary entry in German. It is typically encountered as a misspelling or typographical variant of zunehmen, the verb meaning to increase, to grow, or to gain.

Zunehmen is formed with the base verb nehmen and the prefix zu-, and the infinitive is written as znehmen. In conjugation the prefix is separable in the present tense: ich nehme zu, du nimmst zu, er nimmt zu. The past participle is zugenommen.

Common contexts include population, prices, weight, or symptoms: Die Bevölkerung nimmt zu; Die Kosten nehmen zu; Die Symptome nehmen zu. The sense is generally “to increase” or “to rise,” and can be neutral or negative depending on the context.

It is important to note that znehmen is not standard German and should be corrected to zunehmen in formal writing. In most German dictionaries, only zunehmen is listed, while znehmen is typically treated as an error or nonstandard variant.

Translations of zunehmen (i.e., increase, grow, rise) are encountered in English as phrases like “to increase” or “to rise,” as in The population is increasing.