verboten
German, adjective
verboten is spelled V-E-R-B-O-T-E-N (8 letters) and appears 40 times per million words in written German, the 2,115th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Verboten is a German adjective meaning “forbidden, prohibited, banned” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a past participle of verbieten. With an umlaut, verböten is a different word: “first/third-person plural subjunctive II of verbieten”. With a capital, Verboten is a different word: “dative plural of Verbot”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “nicht erlaubt”.
What does verboten mean in English?
adjective
- 1
forbidden, prohibited, banned
die verbotene Frucht
verb
- 1
past participle of verbieten
verb
- 1
first/third-person plural subjunctive II of verbieten
noun
- 1
neuterdative plural of Verbot
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. nicht erlaubt
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 verboten
- verbotener masculine nominative singular
- verbotene feminine nominative singular
- verbotenes neuter nominative singular
- verbotenen genitive masculine singular
- verbotenem dative masculine singular
- der verbotene definite includes-article masculine
- die verbotene definite feminine includes-article
- das verbotene definite includes-article neuter
- die verbotenen definite includes-article nominative
- des verbotenen definite genitive includes-article
- der verbotenen definite feminine genitive
- dem verbotenen dative definite includes-article
- den verbotenen dative definite includes-article
- verbotner positive nominative strong
- verbotne positive nominative strong
- verbotnes positive nominative strong
- verbotnen positive genitive strong
- verbotnem positive dative strong
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to verboten
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is verboten in German?
verboten appears 40 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).