To lie in German 🇩🇪

lügen info.

Tips to remember the German word “lügen” (to lie):
1. Think of the English phrase, “You’re pulling my leg,” and replace “leg” with a similar-sounding “liegen” (another German word that means “to lie down”). From there, drop the “-iegen” to get “lügen,” which means “to lie” (as in not telling the truth).
2. Associate “lügen” with the English word “lug,” which means to carry or drag something heavy; imagine that lies are a heavy burden to carry, hence “lügen” is the action of telling lies.

Explanations:
– “Lügen” is the infinitive form of the verb that means “to tell a lie” or “to lie” in the sense of not telling the truth.

Other words that mean the same thing:
– “Schwindeln” (to fib, to swindle)
– “Flunkern” (an informal term for fibbing or telling a little white lie)
– “Täuschen” (to deceive, though not exclusive to verbal deception)

Conjugations of “lügen”:
– Infinitive: lügen (to lie)
– Present Tense:
– ich lüge (I lie)
– du lügst (you [singular, informal] lie)
– er/sie/es lügt (he/she/it lies)
– wir lügen (we lie)
– ihr lügt (you [plural or informal] lie)
– sie lügen (they lie)
– Sie lügen (you [formal] lie)
– Simple Past (Imperfect) Tense: ich log (I lied)
– Past Participle: gelogen
– Future Tense (using the present tense of “werden” + infinitive): ich werde lügen (I will lie)

Examples of sentences that use it:
– Er lügt, wenn er sagt, dass er sein Abendessen nicht hatte. (He lies when he says he didn’t have his dinner.)
– Ich glaube, sie hat gelogen, als sie behauptete, den Film noch nicht gesehen zu haben. (I think she lied when she claimed not to have seen the movie yet.)
– Wenn du lügst, verlierst du das Vertrauen der Menschen. (If you lie, you lose people’s trust.)

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