trügen

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See also: trugen

German

Etymology

From Middle High German triegen, from Old High German triugan, triogan, from Proto-West Germanic *dreugan.

The expected form is earlier modern German triegen, the vocalism -ü- being due to influence by lügen (to lie, to tell lies), itself originally liegen and thus a rhyming word.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtʁyː.ɡən/, ,
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Verb

trügen (class 2 strong, third-person singular present trügt, past tense trog, past participle getrogen, past subjunctive tröge, auxiliary haben)

  1. (transitive) to deceive
  2. (intransitive) to be deceptive

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Verb

trügen

  1. first/third-person plural subjunctive II of tragen

Further reading

  • trügen” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
  • trügen” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
  • trügen” in Duden online
  • trügen” in OpenThesaurus.de