vergöttern
German, verb
vergöttern is a German verb meaning “to worship, deify (treat someone/something as sacred, godlike, worthy of veneration)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Vergöttern is a different word: “gerund of vergöttern”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “mehr als gewöhnlich, extrem stark (abgöttisch) lieben und verehren”.
What does vergöttern mean in English?
verb
- 1
to worship, deify (treat someone/something as sacred, godlike, worthy of veneration)
noun
- 1
neutergerund of vergöttern
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. mehr als gewöhnlich, extrem stark (abgöttisch) lieben und verehren
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 vergöttern
- vergöttert present singular third-person
- vergötterte past
- haben auxiliary
- vergötternd participle present
- vergöttre first-person indicative present
- vergöttere first-person indicative present
- vergötter first-person indicative present
- vergötterst indicative present second-person
- vergötterest second-person singular subjunctive
- vergöttrest second-person singular subjunctive
- vergötteret plural second-person subjunctive
- vergöttret plural second-person subjunctive
- vergötterten first-person indicative plural
- vergöttertest indicative preterite second-person
- vergöttertet indicative plural preterite
- vergötter! imperative singular
- vergöttere! imperative singular
- vergöttert! imperative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to vergöttern
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is vergöttern in German?
vergöttern appears about once in every 3 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).