Trage
German, noun
Trage is spelled T-R-A-G-E (5 letters) and appears 17 times per million words in written German, the 4,505th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Trage is a German feminine noun meaning “stretcher (simple litter designed to carry a sick, injured, or dead person)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). On this page, träge is a different word: “lazy, idle”. In lower case, trage is a different word: “first-person singular present”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “eine waagerechte Liege mit Griffen an den Enden, um einen Liegenden zu transportieren”.
What does Trage mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininestretcher (simple litter designed to carry a sick, injured, or dead person)
- 2
feminineback carrier
adjective
- 1
lazy, idle
- 2
listless, sluggish, lacking impetus
- 3
inert
- 4
slow-blow (of an electrical fuse)
verb
- 1
first-person singular present
- 2
first/third-person singular subjunctive I
- 3
singular imperative
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. ohne inneren Antrieb 2. arm an Bewegung 3. nur schwer reagierend 4. sich der Beschleunigung widersetzend
noun: 1. eine waagerechte Liege mit Griffen an den Enden, um einen Liegenden zu transportieren
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 Trage
- Tragen plural
- Tragerl diminutive neuter
- träger masculine nominative singular
- am trägsten superlative
- träges neuter nominative singular
- trägen genitive masculine singular
- trägem dative masculine singular
- der träge definite includes-article masculine
- die träge definite feminine includes-article
- das träge definite includes-article neuter
- die trägen definite includes-article nominative
- des trägen definite genitive includes-article
- der trägen definite feminine genitive
- dem trägen dative definite includes-article
- träg variant
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to Trage
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Trage in German?
Trage appears 17 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).