vereisen
German, verb
vereisen is spelled V-E-R-E-I-S-E-N (8 letters) and appears about once in every 9 million words in written German, the 163,492nd most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Vereisen is a German verb meaning “to ice over (e.g. a pond)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Vereisen is a different word: “gerund of vereisen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “zu Eis werden, sich in Eis verwandeln”.
What does vereisen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to ice over (e.g. a pond)
- 2
to freeze (cause to become frozen or brittle with cold)
noun
- 1
neutergerund of vereisen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. zu Eis werden, sich in Eis verwandeln 2. sich mit Eis, einer Eisschicht bedecken 3. eine Hautstelle durch Aufsprühen eines Kältesprays betäuben
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 vereisen
- vereist present singular third-person
- vereiste past
- haben auxiliary
- sein auxiliary
- haben or sein auxiliary
- vereisend participle present
- vereise first-person indicative present
- vereisest second-person singular subjunctive
- vereiset plural second-person subjunctive
- vereisten first-person indicative plural
- vereistest indicative preterite second-person
- vereistet indicative plural preterite
- vereis imperative second-person singular
- vereis! imperative singular
- vereise! imperative singular
- vereist! imperative plural
- vereist haben auxiliary active infinitive
- vereist werden auxiliary processual-passive infinitive
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is vereisen in German?
vereisen appears about once in every 9 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).