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German
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɛrˈʃpaːrən/, ,
- Hyphenation: er‧spa‧ren
Verb
ersparen (weak, third-person singular present erspart, past tense ersparte, past participle erspart, auxiliary haben)
- (transitive, often with dative reflexive) to save, save up, put aside (money) (the reflexive pronoun may be left out in order to distinguish more clearly from sense 2)
- Synonym: ansparen
Er verlor alles, was er (sich) erspart hatte.- He lost everything he had saved up.
- (transitive) to spare, to save
Ich erspare Ihnen die Einzelheiten.- I’ll spare you the details.
Erspar dir den Ärger und bleib hier!- Save yourself the trouble and stay here!
Conjugation
Conjugation of
ersparen (
weak, auxiliary
haben)
1Rare except in very formal contexts; alternative in würde normally preferred.
Composed forms of
ersparen (
weak, auxiliary
haben)
Derived terms
Further reading
- “ersparen” in Duden online
- “ersparen” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache