tilgen
In English: to repay, to erase
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Verb forms
- Präteritum
- tilgte
- Partizip II
- getilgt
- Perfekt auxiliary
- haben
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Griechenland kann seine Schulden nicht mehr tilgen.
Greece can no longer pay off its debts.
Tatoeba · Dejo · CC BY 2.0 FRDer Täter konnte seine Spuren fast vollständig tilgen.
The perpetrator could almost completely remove all traces.
Tatoeba · Dejo · CC BY 2.0 FRSie hat ihn aus der Erinnerung getilgt.
She wiped him out of her memory.
Tatoeba · Dejo · CC BY 2.0 FRDon't forget this word
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