missverstehen
German, verb
missverstehen is spelled M-I-S-S-V-E-R-S-T-E-H-E-N (13 letters) and appears 1.1 times per million words in written German, the 37,432nd most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Missverstehen is a German verb meaning “to misunderstand, to misapprehend” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Missverstehen is a different word: “gerund of missverstehen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “(jemanden/etwas) inhaltlich oder akustisch nicht richtig verstehen/einschätzen”.
What does missverstehen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to misunderstand, to misapprehend
noun
- 1
neutergerund of missverstehen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. (jemanden/etwas) inhaltlich oder akustisch nicht richtig verstehen/einschätzen
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 missverstehen
- missversteht present singular third-person
- missverstand past
- missverstanden participle past
- missverstände past subjunctive
- missverstünde past subjunctive
- haben auxiliary
- missverstehend participle present
- missverstehe first-person indicative present
- missverstehst indicative present second-person
- missverstehest second-person singular subjunctive
- missverstehet plural second-person subjunctive
- missverständen first-person formal plural
- missverstünden first-person formal plural
- missverstandest indicative preterite second-person
- missverstandst indicative preterite second-person
- missverstandet indicative plural preterite
- missverständest formal rare second-person
- missverstündest formal rare second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to missverstehen
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is missverstehen in German?
missverstehen appears 1.1 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).