untermauern
German, verb
untermauern is spelled U-N-T-E-R-M-A-U-E-R-N (11 letters) and appears 1.6 times per million words in written German, the 28,576th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Untermauern is a German verb meaning “to underpin” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Untermauern is a different word: “gerund of untermauern”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “mit Mauerwerk von unten absichern, abstützen”.
What does untermauern mean in English?
verb
- 1
to underpin
- 2
to underpin, to corroborate
noun
- 1
neutergerund of untermauern
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. mit Mauerwerk von unten absichern, abstützen 2. mit Fakten, Zahlen, Argumenten oder Ähnlichem belegen, stützen, erhärten
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 untermauern
- untermauert present singular third-person
- untermauerte past
- haben auxiliary
- untermauernd participle present
- untermaure first-person indicative present
- untermauere first-person indicative present
- untermauer first-person indicative present
- untermauerst indicative present second-person
- untermauerest second-person singular subjunctive
- untermaurest second-person singular subjunctive
- untermaueret plural second-person subjunctive
- untermauret plural second-person subjunctive
- untermauerten first-person indicative plural
- untermauertest indicative preterite second-person
- untermauertet indicative plural preterite
- untermauere! imperative singular
- untermauer! imperative singular
- untermaure! imperative singular
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to untermauern
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is untermauern in German?
untermauern appears 1.6 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).