trügen

See also: trugen

German

Etymology

From Middle High German triegen, from Old High German triugan, triogan, from Proto-West Germanic *dreugan.

The expected form is earlier modern German triegen, the vocalism -ü- being due to influence by lügen (to lie, to tell lies), itself originally liegen and thus a rhyming word.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtʁyː.ɡən/, [ˈtʁyː.ɡən], [ˈtʁyː.ɡŋ̍]
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Verb

trügen (class 2 strong, third-person singular present trügt, past tense trog, past participle getrogen, past subjunctive tröge, auxiliary haben)

  1. (transitive) to deceive
  2. (intransitive) to be deceptive

Conjugation

Derived terms

Verb

trügen

  1. first/third-person plural subjunctive II of tragen

Further reading

  • trügen” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
  • trügen” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
  • trügen” in Duden online
  • trügen” in OpenThesaurus.de
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