verarschen
German, verb
verarschen is spelled V-E-R-A-R-S-C-H-E-N (10 letters) and appears 6.9 times per million words in written German, the 9,526th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Verarschen is a German verb meaning “to trick, to fool, to prank (to cause to believe something untrue)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Verarschen is a different word: “gerund of verarschen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “jemandem zu seinem eigenen Vorteil beziehungsweise zur allgemeinen Belustigung eine Unwahrheit erzählen, sich…”.
What does verarschen mean in English?
verb
- 1
colloquialto trick, to fool, to prank (to cause to believe something untrue)
verarscht
noun
- 1
neutergerund of verarschen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. jemandem zu seinem eigenen Vorteil beziehungsweise zur allgemeinen Belustigung eine Unwahrheit erzählen, sich über jemanden lustig machen
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 verarschen
- verarscht present singular third-person
- verarschte past
- haben auxiliary
- verarschend participle present
- verarsche first-person indicative present
- verarschst indicative present second-person
- verarschest second-person singular subjunctive
- verarschet plural second-person subjunctive
- verarschten first-person indicative plural
- verarschtest indicative preterite second-person
- verarschtet indicative plural preterite
- verarsch imperative second-person singular
- habe verarscht first-person indicative multiword-construction
- verarsch! imperative singular
- verarsche! imperative singular
- verarscht! imperative plural
- verarscht haben active infinitive perfect
- verarscht werden processual-passive infinitive present
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to verarschen
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is verarschen in German?
verarschen appears 6.9 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).