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No. 350 in Danish

dræbt

Killed.

In a sentence

  • Han blev dræbt i en trafikulykke.

    He was killed in a traffic accident.

    Here, 'dræbt' is used as the past participle to describe something that happened to the subject in a passive structure.

  • Hun dræbte myggen med en avis.

    She killed the mosquito with a newspaper.

    Here, 'dræbte' is the past tense of the verb 'dræbe', actively describing what the subject did.

  • Nogen sagde, at de ville være blevet dræbt, hvis de ikke flygtede.

    Someone said they would have been killed if they hadn't escaped.

    In this sentence, 'dræbt' is used in a conditional past perfect passive voice to discuss an event that could have happened.

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