Sentences with German verb opfern ⟨Statal Passive⟩ ⟨Interrogative⟩

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Present

  • Ich opfere alles für Tom. 
    English I sacrifice everything for Tom.
  • Dem Teufel opfert man am meisten. 
    English The devil is offered the most.

Imperfect

  • Tom opferte sich für seine Freunde. 
    English Tom sacrificed himself for his friends.
  • Er opferte sich selbst und verriet die Organisation. 
    English He sacrificed his life and betrayed the organization.
  • Er opferte sein Leben, um seine Familie zu retten. 
    English He sacrificed his life to save his family.
  • Sie opferten viele Menschenleben und gewannen den Kampf. 
    English They sacrificed many human lives and won the battle.
  • Sie opferte ihr Leben. 
    English She sacrificed her life.
  • Sie opferten Ziegen auf dem Altar, um die Vulkangötter friedlich zu stimmen. 
    English They sacrificed goats on the altar to appease the volcano gods.

Present Subj.

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Imperf. Subj.

-

Imperative

-

Infinitive

  • Lohnt es sich, seine Gesundheit und sein Glück Ruhm und Erfolg zu opfern ? 
    English Is it worth it to sacrifice health and happiness for fame and success?
  • Tom muss Neptun opfern . 
    English Tom must sacrifice Neptune.
  • Der Priester kann auf dem Altar opfern . 
    English The priest can sacrifice on the altar.
  • Sie war bereit, ihren Wohltätern alles zu opfern . 
    English She was ready to sacrifice everything for her benefactors.
  • Darf ein Staat notfalls Unschuldige opfern , wenn dies zur Terrorabwehr erforderlich ist? 
    English Can a state, in emergencies, sacrifice innocents if this is necessary for counter-terrorism?

Participle

  • Er hat alles für dich geopfert . 
    English He sacrificed everything for you.
  • Dieser Bulle wird morgen Abend geopfert . 
    English This bull will be sacrificed tomorrow evening.
  • Er hat weder sein Leben geopfert noch die Organisation verraten. 
    English He did not sacrifice his life, nor did he sell out his organization.
  • Ich habe viel für mein Land geopfert . 
    English I have made many sacrifices for my country.

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Indicative

Examples sentences for realis mood Statal Passive for opfern


  • Ich opfere alles für Tom. 
    English I sacrifice everything for Tom.
  • Tom opferte sich für seine Freunde. 
    English Tom sacrificed himself for his friends.
  • Er opferte sich selbst und verriet die Organisation. 
    English He sacrificed his life and betrayed the organization.
  • Er opferte sein Leben, um seine Familie zu retten. 
    English He sacrificed his life to save his family.
  • Sie opferten viele Menschenleben und gewannen den Kampf. 
    English They sacrificed many human lives and won the battle.
  • Sie opferte ihr Leben. 
    English She sacrificed her life.
  • Dem Teufel opfert man am meisten. 
    English The devil is offered the most.
  • Sie opferten Ziegen auf dem Altar, um die Vulkangötter friedlich zu stimmen. 
    English They sacrificed goats on the altar to appease the volcano gods.

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Subjunctive

Usage for conjunctive mood Statal Passive for opfern

Conditional (würde)

Conditional (würde)

Imperative

Sentences for imperative Statal Passive for opfern

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Translations

Translation of German opfern


German opfern
English sacrifice, donate, be a martyr, give, make a sacrifice, offer sacrifice, sacrifice oneself, victimise
Russian жертвовать, пожертвовать собой, жертвовать собой, пожертвовать, принести в жертву, приносить в жертву, приносить жертву
Spanish sacrificar, ofrendar, inmolarse por, ofrecer, sacrificarse
French sacrifier, célébrer le sacrifice, donner, immoler, sacrifier pour, sacrifier à, se dévouer pour, se sacrifier
Turkish feda etmek, kurban etmek, kıymak, Feda etmek, Kurban etmek
Portuguese sacrificar, matar-se por, sacrificar-se, vitimar, oferecer
Italian sacrificare, dare, immolare, immolarsi per, sacrificarsi, offrire, rinunciare
Romanian sacrifica, sacrificiu, ofranda
Hungarian feláldoz, áldozni, áldozatot hoz
Polish ofiarować, ofiarować się, ofiarowywać, ofiarowywać się, poświęcać, ofiara
Greek θυσιάζω, θυσιάζομαι, θυσία
Dutch opofferen, offeren, overhebben voor, zich opofferen, offer
Czech obětovat
Swedish offra, uppoffra, uppoffra sig, saka
Danish ofre, sacrifice
Japanese 捧げる, 犠牲にする, 供える, 手向ける, 神に捧げる
Catalan sacrificar, renunciar
Finnish uhrata, uhraus
Norwegian ofre
Basque eskaintza, sacrificio, sakrifizio, urdangintza, urdin
Serbian žrtvovati
Macedonian жртва
Slovenian žrtvovati
Slowakisch obetovať
Bosnian žrtvovati
Croatian žrtvovati
Ukrainian жертвувати, принести в жертву, пожертвувати, приносити в жертву
Bulgarian жертва
Belorussian ахвяраваць, прыносіць
Hebrewלהקריב
Arabicتضحية، يُقدِّم كقربان
Persianقربانی کردن، فدا کردن، فدای کردن
Urduنذر کرنا، قربانی دینا، نذر دینا

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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: 82589, 82589, 347629, 160958, 864423

* 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: 6015903, 2186006, 9970017, 8710025, 413944, 7462035, 9346452, 7105213, 10703063, 3263500, 7603223, 8710144, 2433601

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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: opfern

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