anprangern
German, verb
anprangern is spelled A-N-P-R-A-N-G-E-R-N (10 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written German, the 62,285th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Anprangern is a German verb meaning “to denounce, to pillory (to criticize harshly in public)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Anprangern is a different word: “gerund of anprangern”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “öffentlich anklagen, denunzieren, bloßstellen; an den Pranger stellen”.
What does anprangern mean in English?
verb
- 1
to denounce, to pillory (to criticize harshly in public)
- 2
to pillory (to put [someone] in a pillory)
noun
- 1
neutergerund of anprangern
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. öffentlich anklagen, denunzieren, bloßstellen; an den Pranger stellen
The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.
Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of anprangern
- prangert an present singular third-person
- prangerte an past
- angeprangert participle past
- haben auxiliary
- anprangernd participle present
- anzuprangern infinitive infinitive-zu
- prangre an first-person indicative present
- prangere an first-person indicative present
- pranger an first-person indicative present
- prangern an first-person indicative plural
- prangerst an indicative present second-person
- prangerest an second-person singular subjunctive
- prangrest an second-person singular subjunctive
- prangeret an plural second-person subjunctive
- prangret an plural second-person subjunctive
- prangerten an first-person indicative plural
- prangertest an indicative preterite second-person
- prangertet an indicative plural preterite
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to anprangern
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is anprangern in German?
anprangern appears about once in every 2 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).