dræbt

This is the 350th most frequent Danish word.


dræbt

Killed.


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

Han blev dræbt i en trafikulykke.

He was killed in a traffic accident.


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

Hun dræbte myggen med en avis.

She killed the mosquito with a newspaper.


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

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

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