verb
to drink
A1
trinken means to drink. Main senses: consume liquids, or drink alcohol. Strong (irregular) verb: Präsens trink-, Präteritum trank, perfekt getrunken. Uses auxiliary haben. Non-reflexive and not separable. Imperative: Trink! Participle perfekt is getrunken; common everyday verb.
VOCABULARY.DETAILS.EXAMPLES
Er trank ein Glas Wein.
He drank a glass of wine.
Hast du mit Daniel Kaffee getrunken?
Did you drink coffee with Daniel?
Ich trinke Wasser.
I drink water.
VOCABULARY.DETAILS.DETAILS_LABEL
VOCABULARY.DETAILS.MNEMONICS
Picture someone lifting a glass to drink — label the action 'trinken'.
Think 'drink' — 'trinken' is close to 'to drink'.
VOCABULARY.DETAILS.NOTES
Strong verb with vowel change in past (trank) and irregular participle (getrunken). Formal imperative (Sie) is not provided in the conjugation table because the dataset requires that conjugation values must not include personal pronouns; the formal imperative necessarily includes 'Sie', so that specific form is set to 'not applicable' in metadata.