tilgen
German, verb
tilgen is spelled T-I-L-G-E-N (6 letters) and appears 1.5 times per million words in written German, the 29,051st most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Tilgen is a German verb meaning “to erase, to extinguish” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Tilgen is a different word: “gerund of tilgen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “geliehenes Geld (oder allgemein Schulden) wieder zurückzahlen”.
What does tilgen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to erase, to extinguish
- 2
to amortize, to repay, to redeem
noun
- 1
neutergerund of tilgen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. geliehenes Geld (oder allgemein Schulden) wieder zurückzahlen 2. etwas löschen oder entfernen
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 tilgen
- tilgt present singular third-person
- tilgte past
- getilgt participle past
- haben auxiliary
- tilgend participle present
- tilge first-person indicative present
- tilgst indicative present second-person
- tilgest second-person singular subjunctive
- tilget plural second-person subjunctive
- tilgten first-person indicative plural
- tilgtest indicative preterite second-person
- tilgtet indicative plural preterite
- tilg imperative second-person singular
- habe getilgt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben getilgt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- tilg! imperative singular
- tilge! imperative singular
- tilgt! imperative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to tilgen
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is tilgen in German?
tilgen appears 1.5 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).