verfeinden
German, verb
verfeinden is spelled V-E-R-F-E-I-N-D-E-N (10 letters) and appears about once in every 63 million words in written German, the 488,905th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Verfeinden is a German verb meaning “to make enemies” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Verfeinden is a different word: “gerund of verfeinden”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “von einem neutralen oder freundschaftlichen Umgang zu einem ablehnenden (feindschaftlichen) Verhalten…”.
What does verfeinden mean in English?
verb
- 1
to make enemies
noun
- 1
neutergerund of verfeinden
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. von einem neutralen oder freundschaftlichen Umgang zu einem ablehnenden (feindschaftlichen) Verhalten (miteinander, untereinander) übergehen
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 verfeinden
- verfeindet present singular third-person
- verfeindete past
- haben auxiliary
- verfeindend participle present
- verfeinde first-person indicative present
- verfeindest indicative present second-person
- verfeindeten first-person indicative plural
- verfeindetest indicative preterite second-person
- verfeindetet indicative plural preterite
- verfeind imperative second-person singular
- habe verfeindet first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben verfeindet first-person indicative multiword-construction
- verfeind! imperative singular
- verfeinde! imperative singular
- verfeindet! imperative plural
- sich verfeinden active present
- sich verfeindet haben active perfect
- verfeindet sein statal-reflexive present
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is verfeinden in German?
verfeinden appears about once in every 63 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).