verdienen
German, verb
verdienen is a German verb meaning “to make money, to earn” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Verdienen is a different word: “gerund of verdienen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “Geld für eine Tätigkeit erhalten”.
What does verdienen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to make money, to earn
Ich verdiene viel Geld bei meinem Job.
- 2
to deserve
Sie verdient Anerkennung für ihre Arbeit.
noun
- 1
neutergerund of verdienen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Geld für eine Tätigkeit erhalten 2. den angemessenen Gegenwert für etwas liefern, die Voraussetzungen für etwas erfüllen
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 verdienen
- verdient present singular third-person
- verdiente past
- haben auxiliary
- verdienend participle present
- verdiene first-person indicative present
- verdienst indicative present second-person
- verdienest second-person singular subjunctive
- verdienet plural second-person subjunctive
- verdienten first-person indicative plural
- verdientest indicative preterite second-person
- verdientet indicative plural preterite
- verdien imperative second-person singular
- habe verdient first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben verdient first-person indicative multiword-construction
- verdiene! imperative singular
- verdient! imperative plural
- verdient haben active infinitive perfect
- verdient 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 verdienen
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is verdienen in German?
verdienen appears 49 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).