verjagen
German, verb
verjagen is spelled V-E-R-J-A-G-E-N (8 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written German, the 44,523rd most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Verjagen is a German verb meaning “to scare away, to chase away, to expel” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Verjagen is a different word: “gerund of verjagen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “jemanden gewaltsam vertreiben, verscheuchen”.
What does verjagen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to scare away, to chase away, to expel
Der Hund verjagte die Gänse.
noun
- 1
neutergerund of verjagen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. jemanden gewaltsam vertreiben, verscheuchen
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 verjagen
- verjagt present singular third-person
- verjagte past
- haben auxiliary
- verjagend participle present
- verjage first-person indicative present
- verjagst indicative present second-person
- verjagest second-person singular subjunctive
- verjaget plural second-person subjunctive
- verjagten first-person indicative plural
- verjagtest indicative preterite second-person
- verjagtet indicative plural preterite
- verjag imperative second-person singular
- habe verjagt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben verjagt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- verjag! imperative singular
- verjage! imperative singular
- verjagt! imperative plural
- verjagt haben active infinitive perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to verjagen
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is verjagen in German?
verjagen 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).