verbannen
German, verb
verbannen is spelled V-E-R-B-A-N-N-E-N (9 letters) and appears 2.1 times per million words in written German, the 23,467th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Verbannen is a German verb meaning “to banish, to exile” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Verbannen is a different word: “gerund of verbannen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “jemanden mit einem Bann belegen, jemand eines Gebiets verweisen”.
What does verbannen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to banish, to exile
- 2
to ban
noun
- 1
neutergerund of verbannen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. jemanden mit einem Bann belegen, jemand eines Gebiets verweisen 2. etwas oder jemanden entschieden ausschließen
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 verbannen
- verbannt present singular third-person
- verbannte past
- haben auxiliary
- verbannend participle present
- verbanne first-person indicative present
- verbannst indicative present second-person
- verbannest second-person singular subjunctive
- verbannet plural second-person subjunctive
- verbannten first-person indicative plural
- verbanntest indicative preterite second-person
- verbanntet indicative plural preterite
- verbann imperative second-person singular
- habe verbannt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben verbannt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- verbann! imperative singular
- verbannt! imperative plural
- verbannt haben active infinitive perfect
- verbannt 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 verbannen
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is verbannen in German?
verbannen appears 2.1 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).