ermüdetest

Ermüdetest is a historical or literary inflected form of the German verb ermüden, meaning to tire or weary. It is rarely used in modern German and is mostly found in older texts such as Early New High German and Early Modern German, as well as in stylized poetry that aims for an archaic tone. In contemporary standard German, the modern second-person singular present is typically ermüdest.

Grammatical note: The form ermüdetest exemplifies the more variable verb endings of earlier German stages, where the second-person singular ending could appear as -test in certain conjugation patterns. Ermüden itself is a regular verb; its present tense forms are normally ich ermüde, du ermüdest, er ermüdet, wir ermüden, ihr ermüdet, sie ermüden. The form ermüdetest appears primarily in historical contexts and is not standard in modern usage.

Usage and meaning: The form would typically occur in direct address within narrative or dialogue to convey an archaic or formal tone. Depending on context, it can translate roughly as “you weary” or “you are tiring yourself,” with a nuance of weariness produced by effort. In most modern texts, writers tend to use the contemporary forms such as du ermüdest or to rephrase the sentence to avoid archaic inflection.

See also: Ermüden, German verb conjugation, archaic German. Note that ermüdetest is principally of historical interest and is not part of contemporary standard usage, except when quoted for stylistic or scholarly purposes.