verarmen
German, verb
verarmen is spelled V-E-R-A-R-M-E-N (8 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written German, the 87,510th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Verarmen is a German verb meaning “to impoverish, to pauperize (to become poor)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Verarmen is a different word: “gerund of verarmen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “arm werden, sein Vermögen verlieren”.
What does verarmen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to impoverish, to pauperize (to become poor)
noun
- 1
neutergerund of verarmen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. arm werden, sein Vermögen verlieren
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 verarmen
- verarmt present singular third-person
- verarmte past
- sein auxiliary
- verarmend participle present
- verarme first-person indicative present
- verarmst indicative present second-person
- verarmest second-person singular subjunctive
- verarmet plural second-person subjunctive
- verarmten first-person indicative plural
- verarmtest indicative preterite second-person
- verarmtet indicative plural preterite
- verarm imperative second-person singular
- bin verarmt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- sind verarmt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- verarm! imperative singular
- verarme! imperative singular
- verarmt! imperative plural
- verarmt sein active infinitive perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to verarmen
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is verarmen in German?
verarmen appears about once in every 3 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).