verbocken
German, verb
verbocken is spelled V-E-R-B-O-C-K-E-N (9 letters) and appears about once in every 10 million words in written German, the 172,698th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Verbocken is a German verb meaning “to fuck up” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Verbocken is a different word: “gerund of verbocken”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “durch mangelnde Achtsamkeit/Vorbereitung/Konzentration/Eignung einen Misserfolg verantworten/erleiden, etwas…”.
What does verbocken mean in English?
verb
- 1
colloquialto fuck up
- 2
to become stubborn
noun
- 1
neutergerund of verbocken
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. durch mangelnde Achtsamkeit/Vorbereitung/Konzentration/Eignung einen Misserfolg verantworten/erleiden, etwas falsch machen, Unruhe und Unordnung stiften 2. störrisch (bockig) werden
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 verbocken
- verbockt present singular third-person
- verbockte past
- haben auxiliary
- verbockend participle present
- verbocke first-person indicative present
- verbockst indicative present second-person
- verbockest second-person singular subjunctive
- verbocket plural second-person subjunctive
- verbockten first-person indicative plural
- verbocktest indicative preterite second-person
- verbocktet indicative plural preterite
- verbock imperative second-person singular
- habe verbockt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben verbockt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- verbock! imperative singular
- verbocke! imperative singular
- verbockt! imperative plural
- verbockt haben active infinitive perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to verbocken
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is verbocken in German?
verbocken appears about once in every 10 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).