vertilgen
C1to devour / destroy / polish off / exterminate
- English meaning
- to devour / destroy / polish off / exterminate
- CEFR level
- C1 — Advanced
- Vocabulary package
- Describing Food & Taste
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vertilgen in a sentence
Die Gäste vertilgten das ganze Festmahl schnell.
The guests devoured the entire feast quickly.
Conjugation of vertilgen
- Simple past (er/sie/es)
- vertilgte
- Perfect
- hat vertilgt
Word family
vertilgen is built from tilgen (to pay off / redeem / erase). German builds meaning by welding words together, so knowing the parts usually gives you the whole.
Where vertilgen comes from
zusammengesetzt aus ver- und tilgen
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Questions about vertilgen
How do you conjugate vertilgen?
Present tense: vertilge, vertilgst, vertilgt, vertilgen, vertilgt, vertilgen. Simple past: vertilgte. Perfect: hat vertilgt.
What does vertilgen mean in English?
vertilgen means "to devour / destroy / polish off / exterminate". For example: "Die Gäste vertilgten das ganze Festmahl schnell." — "The guests devoured the entire feast quickly."
What level is vertilgen in German?
vertilgen is a C1 word — c1 — advanced. It belongs to the describing food & taste vocabulary.
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