verdauen
German, verb
verdauen is spelled V-E-R-D-A-U-E-N (8 letters) and appears 2.0 times per million words in written German, the 24,295th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Verdauen is a German verb meaning “to digest (separate food in the alimentary canal)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Verdauen is a different word: “gerund of verdauen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “Nahrung mit Hilfe der Verdauungsorgane in solche für den Körper verwertbare Bestandteile zerlegen”.
What does verdauen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to digest (separate food in the alimentary canal)
- 2
informalto process (a piece of news etc.), to accept, get over
noun
- 1
neutergerund of verdauen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Nahrung mit Hilfe der Verdauungsorgane in solche für den Körper verwertbare Bestandteile zerlegen 2. ein Ereignis oder eine Information seelisch und/oder geistig verarbeiten 3. den Vorgang der Verdauung ausüben
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 verdauen
- verdaut present singular third-person
- verdaute past
- haben auxiliary
- verdauend participle present
- verdaue first-person indicative present
- verdaust indicative present second-person
- verdauest second-person singular subjunctive
- verdauet plural second-person subjunctive
- verdauten first-person indicative plural
- verdautest indicative preterite second-person
- verdautet indicative plural preterite
- verdau imperative second-person singular
- habe verdaut first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben verdaut first-person indicative multiword-construction
- verdaue! imperative singular
- verdaut! imperative plural
- verdaut haben active infinitive perfect
- verdaut 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 verdauen
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is verdauen in German?
verdauen appears 2.0 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).