verfassen
German, verb
verfassen is spelled V-E-R-F-A-S-S-E-N (9 letters) and appears 4.9 times per million words in written German, the 12,471st most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Verfassen is a German verb meaning “to write, to compose, to draft, to prepare” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Verfassen is a different word: “gerund of verfassen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “(einen Text) erstellen und schriftlich niederlegen”.
What does verfassen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to write, to compose, to draft, to prepare
noun
- 1
neutergerund of verfassen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. (einen Text) erstellen und schriftlich niederlegen
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 verfassen
- verfasst present singular third-person
- verfasste past
- haben auxiliary
- verfassend participle present
- verfasse first-person indicative present
- verfassest second-person singular subjunctive
- verfasset plural second-person subjunctive
- verfassten first-person indicative plural
- verfasstest indicative preterite second-person
- verfasstet indicative plural preterite
- verfass imperative second-person singular
- habe verfasst first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben verfasst first-person indicative multiword-construction
- verfass! imperative singular
- verfasse! imperative singular
- verfasst! imperative plural
- verfasst haben active infinitive perfect
- verfasst 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 verfassen
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is verfassen in German?
verfassen appears 4.9 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).