vergären
German, verb
vergären is spelled V-E-R-G-Ä-R-E-N (8 letters) and appears about once in every 12 million words in written German, the 189,851st most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Vergären is a German verb meaning “to ferment” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Vergären is a different word: “gerund of vergären”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “anaerob zu Alkohol oder Milchsäure umgewandelt werden”.
What does vergären mean in English?
verb
- 1
to ferment
noun
- 1
neutergerund of vergären
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. anaerob zu Alkohol oder Milchsäure umgewandelt werden
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 vergären
- vergärt present singular third-person
- vergor past
- vergoren participle past
- vergöre past subjunctive
- sein auxiliary
- 4 strong
- vergärend participle present
- vergäre first-person indicative present
- vergärst indicative present second-person
- vergärest second-person singular subjunctive
- vergäret plural second-person subjunctive
- vergören first-person formal plural
- vergorst indicative preterite second-person
- vergort indicative plural preterite
- vergörest formal rare second-person
- vergörst formal rare second-person
- vergöret formal plural rare
- vergört formal plural rare
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is vergären in German?
vergären appears about once in every 12 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).