ertrugen
German, verb
ertrugen is spelled E-R-T-R-U-G-E-N (8 letters) and appears about once in every 10 million words in written German, the 170,338th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Ertrugen is a German verb meaning “first/third-person plural preterite of ertragen” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an umlaut, ertrügen is a different word: “first/third-person plural subjunctive II of ertragen”.
What does ertrugen mean in English?
verb
- 1
first/third-person plural preterite of ertragen
verb
- 1
first/third-person plural subjunctive II of ertragen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. etwas mittels Begehung eines Betrugs erlangen
The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.
Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of ertrugen
- ertrüge present
- ertrügst present
- ertrügt present
- ertrog past
- ertröge subjunctive-ii
- ertrüge! imperative singular
- ertrügt! imperative plural
- ertrogen participle-2 perfect
- haben auxiliary perfect
- ertrogen haben active infinitive perfect
- zu ertrügen active extended infinitive
- ertrogen zu haben active extended infinitive
- ertrügend participle present active
- ertrüg! imperative second-person singular
- habe ertrogen! imperative second-person singular
- habt ertrogen! imperative second-person plural
- ertrügen Sie! imperative honorific present
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is ertrugen in German?
ertrugen appears about once in every 10 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).