Did each other bedeutung

: each of two or more in reciprocal action or relation

looked at each other in surprise

Did each other bedeutung
Each Other vs. One Another: Usage Guide

Some handbooks and textbooks recommend that each other be restricted to reference to two and one another to reference to three or more. The distinction, while neat, is not observed in actual usage. Each other and one another are used interchangeably by good writers and have been since at least the 16th century.

Word History

First Known Use

before the 12th century, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler

The first known use of each other was before the 12th century

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“Each other.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/each%20other. Accessed 6 Nov. 2022.

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pronoun

each the other; one another (used as a compound reciprocal pronoun): to strike at each other; to hold each other's hands; to love each other.

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Origin of each other

before 1000; Middle English; Old English. See each, other

usage note for each other

Although some insist that each other be used only in reference to two ( The two candidates respected each other ) and one another in reference to three or more ( The three nations threaten one another ), in standard practice they are interchangeable. Each other is not restricted to two, nor is one another restricted to three or more.
The possessive of each other is each other's; the possessive of one another is one another's.

Words nearby each other

E = mc2, Ea, E.A.A., each, each and every one, each other, each way, EACSO, EAD, e-address, Eadmund I

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How to use each other in a sentence

  • Masks were not part of the attire, or conversation, but we gave each other plenty of space.

  • According to Azevedo’s appeal, each other candidate had a decade less experience in government.

  • So they run into each other years later and it’s kind of the feeling of you left me hanging.

  • Over time, we watch as he learns the various ways in which human beings can do each other harm.

  • Connie and I will text throughout the day and send each other photos of our food as it comes out of the oven.

  • With all that said, representation of each of these respective communities has increased in the new Congress.

  • Now, she says, her coworkers are actively pranking each other and blaming it on the ghost.

  • Each individual race involves an unusual collaboration between researchers, manufacturers, and public-health entities.

  • First, one fights with another, then they make an alliance, then they go back to fighting each other.

  • In Dresden, Germany, anti-Islam rallies each week draw thousands of demonstrators.

  • Each day she resolved, "To-morrow I will tell Felipe;" and when to-morrow came, she put it off again.

  • Some were even re-arrested for the same nefarious purpose, and the daily papers published their names on each occasion.

  • This city stands upon almost two equal parts on each side the river that passes through.

  • Done, says he, why let fifty of our men advance, and flank them on each wing.

  • Each religion claims that its own Bible is the direct revelation of God, and is the only true Bible teaching the only true faith.

British Dictionary definitions for each other


pronoun

used when the action, attribution, etc, is reciprocalfurious with each other

usage for each other

Each other and one another are interchangeable in modern British usage

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Other Idioms and Phrases with each other


Also, one another. Each one the other, one the other, as in The boys like each other, or The birds were fighting one another over the crumbs. Both of these phrases indicate a reciprocal relationship or action between the subjects preceding (the boys, the birds). Formerly, many authorities held that each other should be confined to a relationship between two subjects only and one another used when there are more than two. Today most do not subscribe to this distinction, which was never strictly observed anyway. [Late 1300s] Also see at each other's throats.

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