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totprügeln

German, verb

totprügeln is a German verb meaning “to beat to death” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Totprügeln is a different word: “gerund of totprügeln”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “so lange heftig auf jemanden einschlagen, bis er tot ist”.

What does totprügeln mean in English?

verb

  1. 1

    to beat to death

noun

as Totprügeln
  1. 1

    neutergerund of totprügeln

Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How German dictionaries define it

verb: 1. so lange heftig auf jemanden einschlagen, bis er tot ist

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 totprügeln

  • prügelt tot present singular third-person
  • prügelte tot past
  • totgeprügelt participle past
  • haben auxiliary
  • totprügelnd participle present
  • totzuprügeln infinitive infinitive-zu
  • prügle tot first-person indicative present
  • prügele tot first-person indicative present
  • prügel tot first-person indicative present
  • prügeln tot first-person indicative plural
  • prügelst tot indicative present second-person
  • prügelest tot second-person singular subjunctive
  • prüglest tot second-person singular subjunctive
  • prügelet tot plural second-person subjunctive
  • prüglet tot plural second-person subjunctive
  • prügelten tot first-person indicative plural
  • prügeltest tot indicative preterite second-person
  • prügeltet tot indicative plural preterite

Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How common is totprügeln in German?

totprügeln appears about once in every 79 million words in written German.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).