Sentences with German verb ertappen

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Present

  • Ich ertappe mich dabei, dass ich an allem etwas auszusetzen habe. 
    English I catch myself having something to criticize about everything.

Imperfect

  • Ich ertappte meine Frau, wie sie dabei war, mich mit meinem besten Freund zu betrügen. 
    English I caught my wife as she was about to cheat on me with my best friend.
  • Ich ertappte mich immer wieder beim Gedanken an den Badesee, obwohl ich noch eine Hausarbeit zu schreiben hatte. 
    English I caught myself again thinking about the swimming lake, even though I still had a paper to write.

Present Subj.

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Imperf. Subj.

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Imperative

-

Infinitive

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Participle

  • Sie wurde ertappt . 
    English She was caught with her hand in the cookie jar.
  • Er wurde auf frischer Tat ertappt . 
    English He was caught red handed.
  • Die Ehebrecherin wurde auf frischer Tat ertappt . 
    English The adulteress was caught in the act.
  • Er erblich, als er sich ertappt fühlte. 
    English He became hereditary when he felt caught.
  • Gestern wurden bei uns in der Straße zwei Männer ertappt , die versuchten, ein Auto zu klauen. 
    English Yesterday, two men were caught in our street trying to steal a car.
  • Was ist, wenn ihr ertappt werdet? 
    English What if you get caught?
  • Sie wurde beim Stehlen einer Kette auf frischer Tat ertappt . 
    English She was caught in the act of stealing a chain.
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Indicative

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  • Ich ertappe mich dabei, dass ich an allem etwas auszusetzen habe. 
    English I catch myself having something to criticize about everything.
  • Ich ertappte meine Frau, wie sie dabei war, mich mit meinem besten Freund zu betrügen. 
    English I caught my wife as she was about to cheat on me with my best friend.
  • Ich ertappte mich immer wieder beim Gedanken an den Badesee, obwohl ich noch eine Hausarbeit zu schreiben hatte. 
    English I caught myself again thinking about the swimming lake, even though I still had a paper to write.
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Translation of German ertappen

German ertappen
English catch, surprise, catch (at), catch oneself, catch oneself doing, cop, find oneself doing, find out
Russian поймать, застать, ловить, заставать, застигать, застигнуть, подлавливать, подловить
Spanish atrapar, sorprender, pillar, sorprenderse
French surprendre, attraper, prendre, prendre en faute
Turkish yakalamak, suçüstü, yakalanmak, şaşırtmak
Portuguese surpreender, flagrar, apanhar, pegar de surpresa
Italian scoprire, sorprendere, sorpresa, sgamare, sorprendersi, sorprendersi a fare
Romanian prinde, surprinde
Hungarian rajta kap, rajta kapni, rajtakap
Polish przyłapać, złapać
Greek πιάνω, συλλαμβάνω, παγιδεύω, τσακώνω
Dutch betrappen, verrassen, zich betrappen
Czech přistihnout, přistihovat, přistihovathnout
Swedish fånga, överraska, ertappa, ertappa sig
Danish overraske, fange, gribe
Japanese 捕まえる, 見つける, 現場を取り押さえる
Catalan sorpresa, agafant, agafar
Finnish yllättää, kiinni, saada kiinni
Norwegian overraske, ta på fersken
Basque atxilotu, harritu, harrituta
Serbian uhvatiti, zateći
Macedonian запрепастување, уловен, уловување
Slovenian ujeti
Slowakisch prichytenie, prichytiť
Bosnian uhvatiti, zateći
Croatian uhvatiti, iznenaditi, zateći
Ukrainian застати, піймати
Bulgarian залавям
Belorussian злавіць, злавіць на гарачым, злавіць сябе
Indonesian memergoki diri sendiri, tertangkap basah
Vietnamese bắt gặp mình, bắt quả tang
Uzbek ish qilayotganda ushlab qolmoq, o‘zini payqab qolmoq
Hindi खुद को पकड़ना, चोरी करते हुए पकड़ना
Chinese 发觉自己, 察觉自己, 当场抓住
Thai จับได้ขณะทำผิด, จับได้ว่าตัวเอง
Korean 자신을 발견하다, 자신이 하고 있음을 깨닫다, 현행범으로 붙잡다
Azerbaijani iş başında yaxalamaq, özünü yaxalamaq
Georgian თავის დაჭერა, საქმეში დაჭერა
Bengali চোরকে হাতেনাতে ধরা, নিজেকে ধরে ফেলা
Albanian kap veten, kapur në flagrancë, zë veten
Marathi चोरी करत असताना पकडणे, स्वतःला पकडणे
Nepali आफैँलाई समात्नु, चोरी गर्दै गर्दा पक्राउ गर्नु
Telugu చోరి చేస్తున్నప్పుడు పట్టుకోవడం, తనను తాను పట్టుకోవడం
Latvian pieķert darbībā, pieķert sevi
Tamil செயலில் இருக்கும் போது பிடிப்பது, தன்னைப் பிடித்துக்கொள்
Estonian tabada end, tegude ajal kinni püüdma
Armenian գործի մեջ բռնել, ինքն իրեն բռնել
Kurdish di çalakiyê de girtin, xwe dîtin, xwe girtin
Hebrewלהפתיע، לתפוס
Arabicالإمساك، مفاجأة، باغته وهو يفعل
Persianغافلگیر کردن
Urduپکڑنا، سراغ لگانا، غافل پکڑنا

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Meanings and synonyms of ertappen
  • jemanden bei etwas Verbotenem überraschen, erwischen, überraschen, überrumpeln
  • sich selbst bei etwas Verbotenem überraschen, erwischen
  • am Schlafittchen packen, erwischen, packen, schnappen, festnehmen, greifen
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* Synonyms come partly from OpenThesaurus (openthesaurus.de) and may have been changed afterwards. They are freely available under the CC-BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) license: ertappen

* Definitions come partly from Wiktionary (de.wiktionary.org)> and may have been changed afterwards. They are freely available under the CC-BY-SA 3.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0) license: 141219, 141219

* Sentences by Tatoeba (tatoeba.org) are freely available under the CC BY 2.0 FR (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/fr/). Some of them were changed. The authors of the sentences can be looked up via: 7005096, 3655821, 8698666, 1726967, 2698573, 6585811

* Sentences from the Wiktionary (de.wiktionary.org) are freely available under the license CC BY-SA 3.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.de). Some of them were changed. The authors of the sentences can be looked up via: 141219, 694201, 141591, 141219

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