prügeln
German, verb
prügeln is spelled P-R-Ü-G-E-L-N (7 letters) and appears 3.5 times per million words in written German, the 15,856th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Prügeln is a German verb meaning “to beat (up), to strike” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Prügeln is a different word: “dative plural of Prügel”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “auf jemanden, etwas mit oder ohne Hilfsmittel wiederholt einschlagen”.
What does prügeln mean in English?
verb
- 1
to beat (up), to strike
- 2
to fight (each other); to get into a fight
noun
- 1
dative plural of Prügel
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. auf jemanden, etwas mit oder ohne Hilfsmittel wiederholt einschlagen 2. mit Händen und Füßen gegeneinander kämpfen
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 prügeln
- prügelt present singular third-person
- prügelte past
- geprügelt participle past
- haben auxiliary
- prügelnd participle present
- prügle first-person indicative present
- prügele first-person indicative present
- prügel first-person indicative present
- prügelst indicative present second-person
- prügelest second-person singular subjunctive
- prüglest second-person singular subjunctive
- prügelet plural second-person subjunctive
- prüglet plural second-person subjunctive
- prügelten first-person indicative plural
- prügeltest indicative preterite second-person
- prügeltet indicative plural preterite
- prügle! imperative singular
- prügele! imperative singular
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to prügeln
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is prügeln in German?
prügeln appears 3.5 times per million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).