verfilmen
German, verb
verfilmen is spelled V-E-R-F-I-L-M-E-N (9 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written German, the 63,211th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Verfilmen is a German verb meaning “to make a film of” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Verfilmen is a different word: “gerund of verfilmen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “als Film entstehen, künstlerisch in Form eines Films umsetzen”.
What does verfilmen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to make a film of
noun
- 1
neutergerund of verfilmen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. als Film entstehen, künstlerisch in Form eines Films umsetzen 2. auf Filmmaterial speichern, eine Kopie erstellen
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 verfilmen
- verfilmt present singular third-person
- verfilmte past
- haben auxiliary
- verfilmend participle present
- verfilme first-person indicative present
- verfilmst indicative present second-person
- verfilmest second-person singular subjunctive
- verfilmet plural second-person subjunctive
- verfilmten first-person indicative plural
- verfilmtest indicative preterite second-person
- verfilmtet indicative plural preterite
- verfilm imperative second-person singular
- habe verfilmt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben verfilmt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- verfilm! imperative singular
- verfilme! imperative singular
- verfilmt! imperative plural
- verfilmt haben active infinitive perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is verfilmen in German?
verfilmen appears about once in every 2 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).