da·mịt — EN↔DE

da·mịt

adverb

1 (mit dieser Sache) with it, with them;

was will er damit [machen]? what's he going to do with it/them?;

meint er mich damit? does he mean me?;

ich bin gleich damit fertig I'll be finished in a moment;

du hast recht damit gehabt you were right there or about that;

er hatte nicht damit gerechnet he had not expected that or reckoned with that;

damit habe ich nichts zu tun I have nothing to do with it/them;

er kommt immer wieder damit an he's for ever harping on it;

was ist denn damit? what's the matter with it/them?; what about it/them?;

wie wäre es damit? how about it?;

damit hat es noch Zeit there's no hurry about that/those;

Schluss or genug damit! that's enough [of that];

hör auf damit! stop it!;

her damit! let's have it/them!; hand it/them over!

2 (gleichzeitig) with that; thereupon

3 (daher) thus; as a result;

er hatte kein Alibi, und gehörte damit zu den Verdächtigen he had no alibi and was therefore one of the suspects;

s. auch da-

NB: In sense A1 the word can occur in two parts in North German coll. usage, e.g.

da habe ich nicht mit gerechnet I didn't expect that

conjunction

so that;

er kam früher, damit sie mehr Zeit hatten or (formal) hätten he came earlier so that they would have more time