(a) Around the circumference or perimeter of, encircling, enclosing, passing around; -- after verbs denoting position, motion, rotation (around an axis or a center), revolution; (b) enveloping, wrapping, covering; over, upon; fig. including, comprehending; (c) clasped around, hanging from; ~ (one's) arm (hals, nekke, swer, shouldres), so as to hang from (one's) arm (neck, shoulders).

Of a number of persons or things: (a) on all sides of, surrounding; (b) in attendance upon, belonging to the retinue of (a king, etc.); (c) placed upon the circumference or border of.

In all directions from (oneself); -- after verbs of looking, striking, etc.

(a) In the vicinity of, near to; (b) him ~, on his body, about his person.

Here and there in (a place), in all parts of, throughout; here and there upon (a surface), all over; everywhere among (a group of people).

(a) Not long before or after (a time of day, a season of the year, a period in history, etc.), approximately; (b) approximating (a color, a degree of heat or dryness), almost, nearly.

(a) Engaged in, busy with, attending to; ben ~, to be busy with (sth.), be concerned with, attend to; gon ~, attend to (sth.); (b) for the sake of (sth.), on account of, for, on behalf of (sb.), for the benefit of; ned ~, needed for; gon ~, to go for the sake of (sth.), go to attend to, go to get; spenden ~, to spend for (sth.), spend on; (c) concerning (sth.), in reference to, in regard to.