vortragen

From Middle High German vortragen, vürtragen, from Old High German furitragan, from Proto-West Germanic *foradragan. Equivalent to vor- +‎ tragen. Compare Dutch voordragen, English foredraw, Swedish föredraga.

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vortragen (class 6 strong, third-person singular present trägt vor, past tense trug vor, past participle vorgetragen, past subjunctive trüge vor, auxiliary haben)

1. (intransitive) to lecture; to give a report
2. (transitive, of topics) to present; to report
3. (transitive, of poems, texts, songs) to recite or sing before an audience
4. (transitive, of ideas, literary) to suggest or propose to a decision maker; to argue

   Der Oberst trug vor, man solle den Sturmangriff um zwei Tage verschieben.

   The colonel argued that the frontal assault be postponed by two days.

5. (transitive, of objects) to carry or take up front

   Diesen Stuhl brauch ich hier hinten nicht mehr. Würdest du ihn eben vortragen?

   I don’t need this chair back here anymore. Would you take it up front?

6. (transitive, accounting, of an operating loss or other legal credit) to carry forward

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