verbrauchen
German, verb
verbrauchen is spelled V-E-R-B-R-A-U-C-H-E-N (11 letters) and appears 3.4 times per million words in written German, the 16,394th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Verbrauchen is a German verb meaning “to consume, to use up” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Verbrauchen is a different word: “use, usage, using”. On this page, Verbräuchen is a different word: “dative plural of Verbrauch”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “für die Bedürfnisbefriedigung verwenden”.
What does verbrauchen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to consume, to use up
noun
- 1
neutergerund of verbrauchen
- 2
neuteruse, usage, using
noun
- 1
dative plural of Verbrauch
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. für die Bedürfnisbefriedigung verwenden 2. durch ständigen Gebrauch wertlos 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 verbrauchen
- verbraucht present singular third-person
- verbrauchte past
- haben auxiliary
- verbrauchend participle present
- verbrauche first-person indicative present
- verbrauchst indicative present second-person
- verbrauchest second-person singular subjunctive
- verbrauchet plural second-person subjunctive
- verbrauchten first-person indicative plural
- verbrauchtest indicative preterite second-person
- verbrauchtet indicative plural preterite
- verbrauch imperative second-person singular
- habe verbraucht first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben verbraucht first-person indicative multiword-construction
- verbrauche! imperative singular
- verbraucht! imperative plural
- verbraucht haben active infinitive perfect
- verbraucht 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 verbrauchen
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is verbrauchen in German?
verbrauchen appears 3.4 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).