erstatten

German

Etymology

From Middle High German erstaten.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɛɐ̯ˈʃtatn̩ /
  • (file)

Verb

erstatten (weak, third-person singular present erstattet, past tense erstattete, past participle erstattet, auxiliary haben) (ditransitive) [+accusative] [+dative]

  1. to reimburse, to refund
    Wir werden Ihnen die Kosten erstatten.
    We will reimburse you for your costs.
  2. to grant, to administer, to make, to do, synonym of abstatten

Usage notes

  • (reimburse): As in the example above, the German construction is unlike the English. The expenses are the direct object of the verb and the receiver is given in the dative case (as in English pay back).
  • (administer): Frequent accusative objects are form-bound activities, now especially Bericht and Anzeige, else oldish Glückwunsch, Gruß, Besuch, Nachricht, Bescheid.

Conjugation

Derived terms

Further reading

This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.