verbrämen
German, verb
verbrämen is spelled V-E-R-B-R-Ä-M-E-N (9 letters) and appears about once in every 43 million words in written German, the 391,488th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Verbrämen is a German verb meaning “to embellish (a piece of clothing), especially with a trimming, edging, brim” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Verbrämen is a different word: “gerund of verbrämen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “etwas umranden und damit verzieren”.
What does verbrämen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to embellish (a piece of clothing), especially with a trimming, edging, brim
- 2
to mask, veil, cloud, sugarcoat (euphemize something negative, especially by making it vague)
- 3
rareto misname, to describe with inappropriate terms (be they positive or negative)
noun
- 1
neutergerund of verbrämen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. etwas umranden und damit verzieren 2. etwas negativ Besetztes verschleiern
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 verbrämen
- verbrämt present singular third-person
- verbrämte past
- haben auxiliary
- verbrämend participle present
- verbräme first-person indicative present
- verbrämst indicative present second-person
- verbrämest second-person singular subjunctive
- verbrämet plural second-person subjunctive
- verbrämten first-person indicative plural
- verbrämtest indicative preterite second-person
- verbrämtet indicative plural preterite
- verbräm imperative second-person singular
- habe verbrämt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben verbrämt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- verbräme! imperative singular
- verbrämt! imperative plural
- verbrämt haben active infinitive perfect
- verbrämt 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 verbrämen
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is verbrämen in German?
verbrämen appears about once in every 43 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).