Sentences with German verb weigern

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Present

  • Ich weigere mich. 
    English I refuse.
  • Warum weigerst du dich? 
    English Why do you refuse?
  • Unser einziger Zeuge weigert sich auszusagen. 
    English Our only witness is refusing to testify.
  • Maria weigert sich hierherzukommen. 
    English Maria refuses to come here.

Imperfect

  • Sie weigerte sich. 
    English She refused.
  • Sie weigerten sich. 
    English They refused.
  • Tom weigerte sich weiterzuarbeiten. 
    English Tom refused to continue working.
  • Tom weigerte sich, loszulassen. 
    English Tom refused to let go.
  • Anne weigerte sich beharrlich zu gestehen. 
    English Anne steadfastly refused to confess.
  • Johnson weigerte sich, das Gesetz anzuerkennen. 
    English Johnson refused to recognize the law.
  • Tom weigerte sich, auf Fleisch zu verzichten. 
    English Tom refused to stop eating meat.
  • Er weigerte sich, es zuzugeben. 
    English He refused to admit it.
  • Tom weigerte sich zuzugeben, dass er einen Fehler gemacht hatte. 
    English Tom refused to admit that he'd made a mistake.
  • Er weigerte sich, das Schmiergeld anzunehmen. 
    English He refused to take the bribe.

Present Subj.

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Imperf. Subj.

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Imperative

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Infinitive

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Participle

  • Ich habe mich geweigert , es zu tun. 
    English I refused to do that.

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Indicative

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  • Ich weigere mich. 
    English I refuse.
  • Sie weigerte sich. 
    English She refused.
  • Sie weigerten sich. 
    English They refused.
  • Tom weigerte sich weiterzuarbeiten. 
    English Tom refused to continue working.
  • Warum weigerst du dich? 
    English Why do you refuse?
  • Tom weigerte sich, loszulassen. 
    English Tom refused to let go.
  • Anne weigerte sich beharrlich zu gestehen. 
    English Anne steadfastly refused to confess.
  • Unser einziger Zeuge weigert sich auszusagen. 
    English Our only witness is refusing to testify.
  • Johnson weigerte sich, das Gesetz anzuerkennen. 
    English Johnson refused to recognize the law.
  • Tom weigerte sich, auf Fleisch zu verzichten. 
    English Tom refused to stop eating meat.
  • Er weigerte sich, es zuzugeben. 
    English He refused to admit it.
  • Tom weigerte sich zuzugeben, dass er einen Fehler gemacht hatte. 
    English Tom refused to admit that he'd made a mistake.
  • Maria weigert sich hierherzukommen. 
    English Maria refuses to come here.
  • Er weigerte sich, das Schmiergeld anzunehmen. 
    English He refused to take the bribe.
  • Der Stier weigerte sich, beim Stierkampf mitzumachen. 
    English The bull refused to participate in the bullfight.

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Subjunctive

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Conditional (würde)

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Translations

Translation of German weigern


German weigern
English refuse, decline
Russian отказываться, уклоняться, отрицать, сопротивляться
Spanish negarse, extrañarse, rechazar, rehusar, resistirse
French refuser
Turkish reddetmek, kaçınmak
Portuguese recusar
Italian rifiutare, rifiutarsi
Romanian nega, refuza
Hungarian elutasít, megtagad, visszautasít, vonakodik
Polish wzbraniać się, odmawiać
Greek αρνούμαι
Dutch weigeren
Czech odmítnout, zdráhat se, zpěčovat se
Swedish vägra
Danish nægte, afvise, vægre sig
Japanese 拒否する, 断る
Catalan negar-se, refusar
Finnish kieltäytyä
Norwegian nekte, vegre seg
Basque ukatu
Serbian odbijati
Macedonian одбивање
Slovenian odkloniti
Slowakisch odmietnuť
Bosnian odbiti
Croatian odbiti
Ukrainian відмовлятися
Bulgarian отказвам
Belorussian адмовіцца
Indonesian menolak
Vietnamese từ chối
Uzbek rad etmoq
Hindi इनकार करना
Chinese 拒绝做
Thai ปฏิเสธ
Korean 거부하다, 거절하다
Azerbaijani reddetmek
Georgian უარყოფა
Bengali অস্বীকার করা
Albanian refuzoj
Marathi नकार देणे
Nepali अस्वीकार गर्नु
Telugu తిరస్కరించు
Latvian atteikties
Tamil நிராகரிக்க
Estonian keelduma
Armenian մերժել
Kurdish refuz kirin
Hebrewסירוב
Arabicرفض
Persianاباکردن، امتناع، امتناع ورزیدن، امتناع کردن، رد کردن، سرباززدن
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Definitions

Meanings and synonyms of weigern

  • ablehnen, etwas zu tun, ablehnen
  • verweigern, (etwas) zurückweisen, ausschlagen (Angebot), (etwas) verschmähen, (etwas) ablehnen, negativ reagieren

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* 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: 4942976, 9427580, 1567331, 7673076, 10010335, 3011349, 5998190, 6833455, 6206012, 1870883, 4682989, 7712398, 9067325, 866851, 6305004, 2850975

* 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: weigern

* 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: 115681

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