verdenken
German, verb
verdenken is spelled V-E-R-D-E-N-K-E-N (9 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written German, the 51,196th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Verdenken is a German verb meaning “to blame, hold against” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Verdenken is a different word: “gerund of verdenken”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “einer Person etwas übelnehmen, heute überwiegend verneint oder als Frage gebraucht; bis ins 19. Jahrhundert…”.
What does verdenken mean in English?
verb
- 1
to blame, hold against
noun
- 1
neutergerund of verdenken
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. einer Person etwas übelnehmen, heute überwiegend verneint oder als Frage gebraucht; bis ins 19. Jahrhundert auch: jemanden (Akkusativobjekt) verdenken 2. kein Verständnis für etwas haben
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 verdenken
- verdenkt present singular third-person
- verdachte past
- verdacht participle past
- verdächte past subjunctive
- haben auxiliary
- verdenkend participle present
- verdenke first-person indicative present
- verdenkst indicative present second-person
- verdenkest second-person singular subjunctive
- verdenket plural second-person subjunctive
- verdachten first-person indicative plural
- verdächten first-person formal plural
- verdachtest indicative preterite second-person
- verdachtet indicative plural preterite
- verdächtest formal rare second-person
- verdächtet formal plural rare
- verdenk imperative second-person singular
- habe verdacht first-person indicative multiword-construction
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is verdenken in German?
verdenken appears about once in every 1 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).