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los

loose

adjective LOHS Less Common

Also means

off

Usage Note

los is hugely idiomatic: Was ist los? means 'What's wrong / what's going on?', and Los! on its own means 'Go!'. As a separable prefix it appears in losfahren ('to set off'); etwas los sein means to be rid of something.

Examples

"Was ist denn hier los?"

Natural Translation

What's going on here, then?

Literal Translation

What is then here loose?

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