anvertrauen
German, verb
anvertrauen is spelled A-N-V-E-R-T-R-A-U-E-N (11 letters) and appears 2.2 times per million words in written German, the 22,305th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Anvertrauen is a German verb meaning “to entrust” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Anvertrauen is a different word: “gerund of anvertrauen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “einer vertrauenswürdigen Person etwas Geheimes oder Intimes sagen”.
What does anvertrauen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to entrust
- 2
to entrust, to consign
- 3
to entrust to someone's care, auspices
- 4
to open up, to open one's heart (usually in secret)
noun
- 1
neutergerund of anvertrauen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. einer vertrauenswürdigen Person etwas Geheimes oder Intimes sagen 2. einer vertrauenswürdigen Person etwas oder jemand überantworten
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 anvertrauen
- vertraut an present singular third-person
- vertraute an past
- anvertraut participle past
- haben auxiliary
- anvertrauend participle present
- anzuvertrauen infinitive infinitive-zu
- vertraue an first-person indicative present
- vertrauen an first-person indicative plural
- vertraust an indicative present second-person
- vertrauest an second-person singular subjunctive
- vertrauet an plural second-person subjunctive
- vertrauten an first-person indicative plural
- vertrautest an indicative preterite second-person
- vertrautet an indicative plural preterite
- vertraue an! imperative singular
- vertraut an! imperative plural
- vertrauet an! imperative plural
- anvertraut haben active infinitive perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to anvertrauen
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is anvertrauen in German?
anvertrauen appears 2.2 times per million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).