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German
Etymology
ver- + trinken
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fərˈtrɪŋkən/, /fɛr-/, , ,
- Hyphenation: ver‧trin‧ken
Verb
vertrinken (class 3 strong, third-person singular present vertrinkt, past tense vertrank, past participle vertrunken, past subjunctive vertränke, auxiliary haben)
- (transitive) to drink away (spend something on drinking alcohol)
- Synonym: (commoner) versaufen
Er hat sein ganzes Geld vertrunken.- He drank away all his money.
Sie hat zehn Jahre ihres Lebens vertrunken.- She drank away ten years of her life.
- (transitive, rare) to drink away, drown (overcome something by drinking alcohol)
- Synonyms: ertränken, antrinken gegen, wegtrinken, schönsaufen
Da sitzen sie und vertrinken ihre Sorgen.- There they sit, drinking away their worries.
- (reflexive, obsolete) to get drunk
- Synonym: sich betrinken
- (intransitive, obsolete or dialectal) to drown (die of suffocation in a liquid)
- Synonym: ertrinken
Conjugation
Conjugation of
vertrinken (class 3
strong, auxiliary
haben)
1Rare except in very formal contexts; alternative in würde normally preferred.
Composed forms of
vertrinken (class 3
strong, auxiliary
haben)
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