"anstrengen" in English anstrengen to strain Detailed translations for "anstrengen" anstrengen anstrengen(also: anspannen, beanspruchen, strapazieren) to strain Wenn Sie sich dafür anstrengen müssten, wär's eine andere Sache, nicht? Source: opensubtitles.org Corpus by OPUS Request review Now, if you had to strain to get it, it'd be a whole lot different. Don't you see?