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übervorteilen
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Etymology
15th century, from über- (“over-”) + Vorteil (“advantage”) + -en, meaning “to seek an [undue] advantage over”.
Pronunciation
Verb
übervorteilen (weak, third-person singular present übervorteilt, past tense übervorteilte, past participle übervorteilt, auxiliary haben)
- (transitive, chiefly formal) to take advantage of; to give someone less than they deserve
Usage notes
- The sense is somewhat counterintuitive in view of the literal translation “to over-advantage someone”. Accordingly there may be occasional erroneous use of sich übervorteilen to mean “to take more than one deserves”. (The construction sich übervorteilen as such is not erroneous when meaning “to take advantage of each other”.)
Conjugation
1Rare except in very formal contexts; alternative in würde normally preferred.
Derived terms
- Übervorteilen, Übervorteiler, Übervorteilung
Further reading
- “übervorteilen” in Duden online
- “übervorteilen” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
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