drüben
German
    
    Etymology
    
From earlier darüben. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Pronunciation
    
- IPA(key): /ˈdryːbm̩/, /ˈdryːbən/
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Adverb
    
drüben
- (following da, hier or other location adverb) over (implying some distance from the listener)
- Ich bin's. Hier drüben! ― It's me. Over here!
 
- over there
- 1924, Kurt Tucholsky, Vor Verdun, in: Die Weltbühne, volume 20, no. 32, Verlag der Weltbühne, page 219:
- Hier war das Niemandsland: drüben auf der Höhe lagen die Deutschen, hüben die Franzosen – dies war unbesetzt.- Here was the no man's land, over there on the height were the Germans, over here the French – this was unoccupied.
 
 
-  1995, “Drüben auf dem Hügel”, in Digital ist Besser, performed by Tocotronic:- Drüben auf dem Hügel möchte ich warten / Im nassen Gras in unserem Schrebergarten- (please add an English translation of this quote)
 
 
 
- 1924, Kurt Tucholsky, Vor Verdun, in: Die Weltbühne, volume 20, no. 32, Verlag der Weltbühne, page 219:
- on the other side
- Either the (former) GDR or pre-1990 BRD, both as political entities and as geographical regions. The term describes the entity/area from which the speaker does not hail. (Can we clean up(+) this sense?)
Derived terms
    
- hüben und drüben
- hüben wie drüben
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