vereiteln
German, verb
vereiteln is spelled V-E-R-E-I-T-E-L-N (9 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written German, the 48,795th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Vereiteln is a German verb meaning “to thwart, foil” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Vereiteln is a different word: “gerund of vereiteln”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “zum Scheitern bringen”.
What does vereiteln mean in English?
verb
- 1
to thwart, foil
noun
- 1
neutergerund of vereiteln
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. zum Scheitern bringen
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 vereiteln
- vereitelt present singular third-person
- vereitelte past
- haben auxiliary
- vereitelnd participle present
- vereitle first-person indicative present
- vereitele first-person indicative present
- vereitel first-person indicative present
- vereitelst indicative present second-person
- vereitelest second-person singular subjunctive
- vereitlest second-person singular subjunctive
- vereitelet plural second-person subjunctive
- vereitlet plural second-person subjunctive
- vereitelten first-person indicative plural
- vereiteltest indicative preterite second-person
- vereiteltet indicative plural preterite
- vereitle! imperative singular
- vereitelt! imperative plural
- vereitelt haben active infinitive perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to vereiteln
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is vereiteln in German?
vereiteln 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).