vertrinken

German

Etymology

ver- +‎ trinken

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /fərˈtrɪŋkən/, /fɛr-/, [fɐˈtʁɪŋ.kŋ̍], [fɛɐ̯-], [-kən]
  • Hyphenation: ver‧trin‧ken
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Verb

vertrinken (class 3 strong, third-person singular present vertrinkt, past tense vertrank, past participle vertrunken, past subjunctive vertränke, auxiliary haben)

  1. (transitive) to drink away (spend something on drinking alcohol)
    Synonym: (commoner) versaufen
    Er hat sein ganzes Geld vertrunken.
    He drank away all his money.
    Sie hat zehn Jahre ihres Lebens vertrunken.
    She drank away [i.e. was an alcoholic for] ten years of her life.
  2. (transitive, rare) to drink away, drown (overcome something by drinking alcohol)
    Synonyms: ertränken, antrinken gegen, wegtrinken, schönsaufen
    Da sitzen sie und vertrinken ihre Sorgen.
    There they sit, drinking away their worries.
  3. (reflexive, obsolete) to get drunk
    Synonym: sich betrinken
  4. (intransitive, obsolete or dialectal) to drown (die of suffocation in a liquid)
    Synonym: ertrinken

Conjugation

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