Trog
German, noun
Trog is spelled T-R-O-G (4 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written German, the 49,558th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Trog is a German masculine noun meaning “trough (narrow container for animals to drink or eat from)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). In lower case, trog is a different word: “first/third-person singular preterite of trügen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “größeres längliches Gefäß, in das man zum Beispiel Wasser oder Futter für Tiere gibt oder in dem Teig…”.
What does Trog mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinetrough (narrow container for animals to drink or eat from)
- 2
masculinetrench (often filled with sediments)
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular preterite of trügen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. größeres längliches Gefäß, in das man zum Beispiel Wasser oder Futter für Tiere gibt oder in dem Teig zubereitet wurde 2. Tiefdruckgebiet innerhalb der Strömung auf der Rückseite eines sich abbauenden Tiefdruckgebiets 3. mit Sedimenten angefülltes Becken
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 Trog
- Troges genitive
- Trogs genitive
- Tröge plural
- Troge dative singular
- Trögen dative definite plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to Trog
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Trog in German?
Trog appears about once in every 1 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).