verfremden
German, verb
verfremden is spelled V-E-R-F-R-E-M-D-E-N (10 letters) and appears about once in every 10 million words in written German, the 172,698th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Verfremden is a German verb meaning “to manipulate, to twist, to disguise” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Verfremden is a different word: “gerund of verfremden”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “etwas so verändern, so manipulieren, dass etwas überraschendes Neues aus dem Bekannten entsteht”.
What does verfremden mean in English?
verb
- 1
to manipulate, to twist, to disguise
noun
- 1
neutergerund of verfremden
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. etwas so verändern, so manipulieren, dass etwas überraschendes Neues aus dem Bekannten entsteht
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 verfremden
- verfremdet present singular third-person
- verfremdete past
- haben auxiliary
- verfremdend participle present
- verfremde first-person indicative present
- verfremdest indicative present second-person
- verfremdeten first-person indicative plural
- verfremdetest indicative preterite second-person
- verfremdetet indicative plural preterite
- verfremd imperative second-person singular
- habe verfremdet first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben verfremdet first-person indicative multiword-construction
- verfremd! imperative singular
- verfremde! imperative singular
- verfremdet! imperative plural
- verfremdet haben active infinitive perfect
- verfremdet werden processual-passive infinitive present
- verfremdet worden sein processual-passive infinitive perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is verfremden in German?
verfremden appears about once in every 10 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).