verhageln
German, verb
verhageln is spelled V-E-R-H-A-G-E-L-N (9 letters) and appears about once in every 9 million words in written German, the 156,943rd most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Verhageln is a German verb meaning “to be damaged by hail” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Verhageln is a different word: “gerund of verhageln”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “durch fallende Hagelkörner beschädigt oder zerstört werden”.
What does verhageln mean in English?
verb
- 1
to be damaged by hail
- 2
to ruin, spoil
noun
- 1
neutergerund of verhageln
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. durch fallende Hagelkörner beschädigt oder zerstört werden 2. jemandem etwas vermiesen; jemandem die Freude an etwas nehmen
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 verhageln
- verhagelt present singular third-person
- verhagelte past
- haben auxiliary
- sein auxiliary
- haben or sein auxiliary
- verhagelnd participle present
- verhagle first-person indicative present
- verhagele first-person indicative present
- verhagel first-person indicative present
- verhagelst indicative present second-person
- verhagelest second-person singular subjunctive
- verhaglest second-person singular subjunctive
- verhagelet plural second-person subjunctive
- verhaglet plural second-person subjunctive
- verhagelten first-person indicative plural
- verhageltest indicative preterite second-person
- verhageltet indicative plural preterite
- verhagel! imperative singular
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is verhageln in German?
verhageln appears about once in every 9 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).