nachtragen
German, verb
nachtragen is spelled N-A-C-H-T-R-A-G-E-N (10 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written German, the 80,178th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Nachtragen is a German verb meaning “to append, to supplement” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). On this page, Nachträgen is a different word: “dative plural of Nachtrag”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “etwas jemand anderen, der voran oder schon weg ist, bringen (, was er vergessen hat)”.
What does nachtragen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to append, to supplement
- 2
to resent
noun
- 1
dative plural of Nachtrag
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. etwas jemand anderen, der voran oder schon weg ist, bringen (, was er vergessen hat) 2. (eine Eintragung) ergänzen 3. übel nehmen
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 nachtragen
- trägt nach present singular third-person
- trug nach past
- nachgetragen participle past
- trüge nach past subjunctive
- haben auxiliary
- 6 strong
- nachtragend participle present
- nachzutragen infinitive infinitive-zu
- trage nach first-person indicative present
- tragen nach first-person indicative plural
- trägst nach indicative present second-person
- tragt nach indicative plural present
- tragest nach second-person singular subjunctive
- traget nach plural second-person subjunctive
- trugen nach first-person indicative plural
- trügen nach first-person formal plural
- trugst nach indicative preterite second-person
- trugt nach indicative plural preterite
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is nachtragen in German?
nachtragen appears about once in every 3 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).