ermüdeten

Ermüdeten is a German word form that appears in two grammatical roles: as a past tense form of the verb ermüden, and as the declined attributive form of the adjective ermüdet in plural nouns. Its exact meaning depends on the context.

As a verb, ermüdeten is the Präteritum (simple past) third-person plural form of ermüden, which means to tire or weary. In sentences with a plural subject, ermüdeten indicates that the subject caused fatigue or wore someone or something out. For example: Die langen Reisen ermüdeten die Soldaten. (The long journeys fatigued the soldiers.) In narrative or formal writing, this form can appear when describing actions completed in the past by multiple agents.

As an adjective, ermüdeten is the weakly declined form of ermüdet used before plural nouns with a definite article or determiner. It conveys the sense of “tired” or “weary” describing the plural noun. For example: die ermüdeten Augen (the tired eyes) or die ermüdeten Soldaten (the weary soldiers). In this usage, the base adjective is ermüdet, and the ending -en reflects the definite, plural form.

Usage notes: ermüden is relatively formal and can appear in literary, historical, or journalistic texts. In everyday modern German, speakers more commonly use synonyms such as müde, erschöpft, or ermüdet as adjectives in simpler constructions, or use verbs like hat ermüdet or ist ermüdet geworden to describe fatigue. The related noun Ermüdung denotes fatigue or weariness.

See also: Ermüdung, ermüden, ermüdet.