dazugehört

Dazugehört is a form of the German verb dazugehören, meaning to belong to or to be part of something. It is used to express that a person, object, or idea is included in a group, context, or set and thus belongs with the rest.

Morphology and common forms: the infinitive is dazuhören or dazugehören (the fixed expression is usually written as one word dazugehören). In present tense, typical sentences use gehöre dazu, gehörst dazu, gehört dazu, gehören dazu, etc., with dazu as a separate adverbial particle. The simple past is gehörte dazu or dazuhörte dazu, and the perfect tense is habe dazu gehört or habe dazugehört, depending on regional usage. The past participle form is dazugehört, used with haben in compound tenses.

Usage and meaning: dazugehört expresses inclusion or belonging within a group, system, or situation. It can refer to people (Wer gehört dazu?) or to elements of a concept (Das gehört dazu). The phrase is common in everyday language and in formal contexts, and it can carry both literal and figurative senses, such as inclusion in a team, a tradition, or a set of responsibilities. A closely related idea is the sense that something “comes with” a given circumstance, as in “that comes with the territory.”

Examples: Das gehört dazu. Translation: That goes with it / That is part of it. Er gehört dazu. Translation: He belongs to it / He is part of the team. In discussions about social belonging, dazugehört is often used to emphasize inclusion and the normal or expected nature of certain elements within a group.

See also: belonging, inclusion, das gehört dazu as a common idiom.