verhelfen
German, verb
verhelfen is spelled V-E-R-H-E-L-F-E-N (9 letters) and appears 3.7 times per million words in written German, the 15,332nd most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Verhelfen is a German verb meaning “to help (to)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Verhelfen is a different word: “gerund of verhelfen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “jemanden bei einer Sache unterstützen, damit ein Ziel, ein gewünschtes Ereignis erreicht wird”.
What does verhelfen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to help (to)
noun
- 1
neutergerund of verhelfen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. jemanden bei einer Sache unterstützen, damit ein Ziel, ein gewünschtes Ereignis erreicht 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 verhelfen
- verhilft present singular third-person
- verhalf past
- verholfen participle past
- verhülfe past subjunctive
- haben auxiliary
- 3 strong
- verhelfend participle present
- verhelfe first-person indicative present
- verhilfst indicative present second-person
- verhelft indicative plural present
- verhelfest second-person singular subjunctive
- verhelfet plural second-person subjunctive
- verhalfen first-person indicative plural
- verhülfen first-person formal plural
- verhalfst indicative preterite second-person
- verhalft indicative plural preterite
- verhülfest formal rare second-person
- verhülfst formal rare second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is verhelfen in German?
verhelfen appears 3.7 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).