entfremden
German, verb
entfremden is spelled E-N-T-F-R-E-M-D-E-N (10 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written German, the 96,776th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Entfremden is a German verb meaning “to estrange, to alienate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Entfremden is a different word: “gerund of entfremden”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “sich langsam aber sicher nicht mehr so nahe sein wie zuvor”.
What does entfremden mean in English?
verb
- 1
to estrange, to alienate
noun
- 1
neutergerund of entfremden
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. sich langsam aber sicher nicht mehr so nahe sein wie zuvor 2. aktiv beitragen, dass eine Person einer anderen nicht mehr so nahe ist wie zuvor 3. zu einem anderen Zweck benutzen als dem ursprünglich gedachten
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 entfremden
- entfremdet present singular third-person
- entfremdete past
- haben auxiliary
- entfremdend participle present
- entfremde first-person indicative present
- entfremdest indicative present second-person
- entfremdeten first-person indicative plural
- entfremdetest indicative preterite second-person
- entfremdetet indicative plural preterite
- entfremd imperative second-person singular
- habe entfremdet first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben entfremdet first-person indicative multiword-construction
- entfremd! imperative singular
- entfremde! imperative singular
- entfremdet! imperative plural
- entfremdet haben active infinitive perfect
- entfremdet werden processual-passive infinitive present
- entfremdet worden sein processual-passive infinitive perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to entfremden
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is entfremden in German?
entfremden appears about once in every 4 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).