missgönnen
German, verb
missgönnen is spelled M-I-S-S-G-Ö-N-N-E-N (10 letters) and appears about once in every 32 million words in written German, the 334,656th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Missgönnen is a German verb meaning “to grudge, begrudge” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Missgönnen is a different word: “gerund of missgönnen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “jemandem etwas oder jemanden neidvoll absprechen”.
What does missgönnen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to grudge, begrudge
noun
- 1
neutergerund of missgönnen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. jemandem etwas oder jemanden neidvoll absprechen
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 missgönnen
- missgönnt present singular third-person
- missgönnte past
- haben auxiliary
- missgönnend participle present
- missgönne first-person indicative present
- missgönnst indicative present second-person
- missgönnest second-person singular subjunctive
- missgönnet plural second-person subjunctive
- missgönnten first-person indicative plural
- missgönntest indicative preterite second-person
- missgönntet indicative plural preterite
- missgönn imperative second-person singular
- habe missgönnt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben missgönnt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- mißgönnen obsolete
- missgönn! imperative singular
- missgönne! imperative singular
- missgönnt! imperative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to missgönnen
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is missgönnen in German?
missgönnen appears about once in every 32 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).