verhauen
German, verb
verhauen is spelled V-E-R-H-A-U-E-N (8 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written German, the 41,097th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Verhauen is a German verb meaning “to bash up, trounce” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Verhauen is a different word: “gerund of verhauen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “jemandem eine Tracht Prügel verpassen, eine Person (nicht sehr brutal) schlagen (hauen)”.
What does verhauen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to bash up, trounce
- 2
to miscalculate
- 3
to flunk
noun
- 1
neutergerund of verhauen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. jemandem eine Tracht Prügel verpassen, eine Person (nicht sehr brutal) schlagen (hauen) 2. sehr viele Fehler machen, und deshalb zum Beispiel eine Prüfung nicht bestehen 3. (bei der Berechnung/Kalkulation) einen Fehler machen 4. (leichtfertig) Geld (für Spaß und Vergnügen) ausgeben
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 verhauen
- verhaut present singular third-person
- verhaute past
- haben auxiliary
- verhauend participle present
- verhaue first-person indicative present
- verhaust indicative present second-person
- verhauest second-person singular subjunctive
- verhauet plural second-person subjunctive
- verhauten first-person indicative plural
- verhautest indicative preterite second-person
- verhautet indicative plural preterite
- verhau imperative second-person singular
- habe verhauen first-person indicative multiword-construction
- habe verhaut Austria first-person indicative
- verhau! imperative singular
- verhaue! imperative singular
- verhaut! imperative plural
- verhauener positive nominative strong
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to verhauen
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is verhauen in German?
verhauen appears about once in every 1 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).