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entrücken

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German

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Etymology

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From Middle High German entrücken. Equivalent to ent- +‎ rücken.

Pronunciation

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Verb

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entrücken (weak, third-person singular present entrückt, past tense entrückte, past participle entrückt, auxiliary haben or sein)

  1. (transitive, religion) to translate, to rapture (physically)
    Elia wurde in den Himmel entrückt. ― Elija was translated to heaven.
  2. (transitive, religion) to ravish, to enrapture, to enthrall (spiritually)
  3. (transitive, by extension) to transport, to carry away (mentally) [with accusative ‘something’ and dative ‘from someone/somewhere’]
  4. (intransitive, higher register) to escape [with dative ‘(from) someone/something’] [auxiliary sein]
    Er war seinen Häschern entrückt. ― He had escaped his pursuers.

Conjugation

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Derived terms

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Further reading

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  • “entrücken” in Duden online
  • “entrücken”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎[1] (in German)