vergrämen
German, verb
vergrämen is spelled V-E-R-G-R-Ä-M-E-N (9 letters) and appears about once in every 22 million words in written German, the 267,890th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Vergrämen is a German verb meaning “to offend” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Vergrämen is a different word: “gerund of vergrämen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “etwas tun, was den davon Betroffenen stört und dazu führen kann, dass dieser den Kontakt abbricht”.
What does vergrämen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to offend
- 2
to scare off
noun
- 1
neutergerund of vergrämen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. etwas tun, was den davon Betroffenen stört und dazu führen kann, dass dieser den Kontakt abbricht 2. Tiere/Jagdwild wiederholt stören und so verscheuchen 3. in Kummer, Trauer, Wut (Gram) geraten oder verharren
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 vergrämen
- vergrämt present singular third-person
- vergrämte past
- haben auxiliary
- vergrämend participle present
- vergräme first-person indicative present
- vergrämst indicative present second-person
- vergrämest second-person singular subjunctive
- vergrämet plural second-person subjunctive
- vergrämten first-person indicative plural
- vergrämtest indicative preterite second-person
- vergrämtet indicative plural preterite
- vergräm imperative second-person singular
- habe vergrämt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben vergrämt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- vergräm! imperative singular
- vergräme! imperative singular
- vergrämt! imperative plural
- vergrämt haben active infinitive perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is vergrämen in German?
vergrämen appears about once in every 22 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).