Sentences with German verb saufen ⟨Subordinate⟩

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Present

  • Tom säuft sich zu Tode. 
    English Tom is drinking himself to death.
  • Er säuft zu viel. 
    English He drinks too much.
  • Ihr Mann säuft wirklich wie ein Loch. 
    English Your husband really drinks like a hole.
  • Du weißt, dass du alt geworden bist, wenn du freitagabends allein in deiner Bude Rotwein säufst und dabei Chopin hörst. 
    English You know you're old when you spend your Friday evenings alone in your flat drinking red wine and listening to Chopin.

Imperfect

  • Die Soldaten soffen und hurten den ganzen Tag lang. 
  • Er hatte sich reichlich mit alkoholischen Getränken eingedeckt und soff und schlief, wachte auf und soff weiter. 
    English He had stocked up generously on alcoholic beverages and drank and slept, woke up and continued drinking.

Present Subj.

-

Imperf. Subj.

-

Imperative

-

Infinitive

  • Ich sollte nicht saufen . 
    English I shouldn't drink.

Participle

  • Tom hat sich zu Tode gesoffen . 
    English Tom drank himself to death.
  • Er hat in dieser Zeit immer gesoffen . 
    English He was always drinking in those days.
  • Er hat ein bisschen gesoffen . 
    English He has drunk a little.

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Indicative

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  • Elefanten saufen Wasser. 
    English Elephants drink water.
  • Tom säuft sich zu Tode. 
    English Tom is drinking himself to death.
  • Die Kühe saufen aus dem Trog. 
    English The cows drink from the trough.
  • Die Soldaten soffen und hurten den ganzen Tag lang. 
  • Er säuft zu viel. 
    English He drinks too much.
  • Ihr Mann säuft wirklich wie ein Loch. 
    English Your husband really drinks like a hole.
  • Dass Jugendliche bis zur Besinnungslosigkeit saufen , ist leider kein Einzelphänomen. 
    English Unfortunately, the fact that young people drink to the point of unconsciousness is not an isolated phenomenon.
  • Er hatte sich reichlich mit alkoholischen Getränken eingedeckt und soff und schlief, wachte auf und soff weiter. 
    English He had stocked up generously on alcoholic beverages and drank and slept, woke up and continued drinking.
  • Du weißt, dass du alt geworden bist, wenn du freitagabends allein in deiner Bude Rotwein säufst und dabei Chopin hörst. 
    English You know you're old when you spend your Friday evenings alone in your flat drinking red wine and listening to Chopin.

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Subjunctive

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Conditional (würde)

Conditional (würde)

Imperative

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Translations

Translation of German saufen


German saufen
English booze, drink, guzzle, bouse, fuddle, hit the sauce, quaff, soak
Russian пить, пьянствовать, бухать, выпивать, выпить, лакать, нажираться, употреблять
Spanish beber, abrevarse, emborracharse, empinar el codo, ser un borracho, chupar, tragar
French boire, pomper, pinter, pinter sec, téter la fillette, écluser, s'abreuver
Turkish içmek, fazla içmek, içki içmek, içkiyi fazla içmek, sarhoş olmak
Portuguese beber, beber muito, ser alcoólico, encher a cara, embebedar-se
Italian bere, sbevazzare, trincare, ingoiare
Romanian bea, beți, consuma alcool, se îmbăta
Hungarian iszik, iszákoskodik, vedel, ivás
Polish chlać, pić, żłopać, chłeptać, napić się, pić łapczywie, wychłeptać, wypić łapczywie
Greek πίνω, μπεκροπίνω, ρουφώ, τα πίνω, καταναλώνω αλκοόλ
Dutch drinken, zuipen, tetteren, zopen
Czech chlastat, pít
Swedish dricka, supa, sup, supande
Danish drikke, sylle
Japanese 飲む, がぶ飲みする, 酒を飲む, 酔っ払う
Catalan beure, beure alcohol, emborratxar-se
Finnish juoda, juopotella, ryypätä, kännissä, kännätä
Norwegian drikke, supe, slenge
Basque edan, edari
Serbian piti, konzumirati, konzumirati alkohol
Macedonian пиење, пие
Slovenian piti, žgati, žreti
Slowakisch piť, chľastať, hádzať
Bosnian piti, konzumirati, konzumirati alkohol
Croatian piti, konzumirati, konzumirati alkohol
Ukrainian пити, пиячити, бухати
Bulgarian пия, пия алкохол
Belorussian піць, запіваць, п'яніць, упіваць
Hebrewלשתות، לצרוך אלכוהול
Arabicشرب، عاقر، أسكر، استهلاك الكحول، يشرب
Persianخوردن، نوشیدن، بدمستی کردن
Urduشراب پینا، پینا، شراب نوشی

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* 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: 533882, 533882, 830458, 10137, 467398

* 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: 10321022, 1128195, 627562, 3579456, 3686732, 5620869, 637742, 1415479, 9037595

* 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: 10137, 10137

* 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: saufen

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