verengen
German, verb
verengen is spelled V-E-R-E-N-G-E-N (8 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written German, the 83,766th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Verengen is a German verb meaning “to constrict, to make narrower” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Verengen is a different word: “gerund of verengen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “schmaler werden oder machen”.
What does verengen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to constrict, to make narrower
- 2
to take in (clothing)
- 3
to narrow, to contract
noun
- 1
neutergerund of verengen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. schmaler werden oder machen
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 verengen
- verengt present singular third-person
- verengte past
- haben auxiliary
- verengend participle present
- verenge first-person indicative present
- verengst indicative present second-person
- verengest second-person singular subjunctive
- verenget plural second-person subjunctive
- verengten first-person indicative plural
- verengtest indicative preterite second-person
- verengtet indicative plural preterite
- vereng imperative second-person singular
- habe verengt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben verengt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- vereng! imperative singular
- verenge! imperative singular
- verengt! imperative plural
- verengt haben active infinitive perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to verengen
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is verengen in German?
verengen appears about once in every 3 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).