German

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ɛɐ̯ˈleːɡŋ̩/, /ɛɐ̯ˈleːɡən/
  • Hyphenation: er‧le‧gen
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Etymology 1

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Participle

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erlegen

  1. past participle of erliegen

Etymology 2

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From Middle High German erleggen, from Old High German arleggen, irleccen, from Proto-Germanic *uzlagjaną. Equivalent to er- +‎ legen.

Verb

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erlegen (weak, third-person singular present erlegt, past tense erlegte, past participle erlegt, auxiliary haben)

  1. causative of erliegen: to make succumb
  2. (formal) to hunt down (wild game)
  3. (euphemistic) to cull (livestock)
  4. (regional outside Austria) to pay a sum of money
Conjugation
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Derived terms
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Further reading

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