verheimlichen
German, verb
verheimlichen is spelled V-E-R-H-E-I-M-L-I-C-H-E-N (13 letters) and appears 1.6 times per million words in written German, the 28,120th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Verheimlichen is a German verb meaning “to keep secret, to conceal, to hide” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Verheimlichen is a different word: “gerund of verheimlichen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “dafür sorgen, dass etwas nicht bekannt wird”.
What does verheimlichen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to keep secret, to conceal, to hide
noun
- 1
neutergerund of verheimlichen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. dafür sorgen, dass etwas nicht bekannt wird
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 verheimlichen
- verheimlicht present singular third-person
- verheimlichte past
- haben auxiliary
- verheimlichend participle present
- verheimliche first-person indicative present
- verheimlichst indicative present second-person
- verheimlichest second-person singular subjunctive
- verheimlichet plural second-person subjunctive
- verheimlichten first-person indicative plural
- verheimlichtest indicative preterite second-person
- verheimlichtet indicative plural preterite
- verheimlich imperative second-person singular
- habe verheimlicht first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben verheimlicht first-person indicative multiword-construction
- verheimlich! imperative singular
- verheimliche! imperative singular
- verheimlicht! imperative plural
- verheimlicht haben active infinitive perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to verheimlichen
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is verheimlichen in German?
verheimlichen appears 1.6 times per million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).