verkabeln
German, verb
verkabeln is spelled V-E-R-K-A-B-E-L-N (9 letters) and appears about once in every 6 million words in written German, the 123,622nd most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Verkabeln is a German verb meaning “to hook [with accusative ‘someone/something’] up with cables” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Verkabeln is a different word: “gerund of verkabeln”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “mit leitendem Material (Kabel) verbinden, so dass eine (elektrische) Leitung entsteht”.
What does verkabeln mean in English?
verb
- 1
to hook [with accusative ‘someone/something’] up with cables
noun
- 1
neutergerund of verkabeln
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. mit leitendem Material (Kabel) verbinden, so dass eine (elektrische) Leitung entsteht 2. per Leitung/Kabel mit einem Netz verbinden
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 verkabeln
- verkabelt present singular third-person
- verkabelte past
- haben auxiliary
- verkabelnd participle present
- verkable first-person indicative present
- verkabele first-person indicative present
- verkabel first-person indicative present
- verkabelst indicative present second-person
- verkabelest second-person singular subjunctive
- verkablest second-person singular subjunctive
- verkabelet plural second-person subjunctive
- verkablet plural second-person subjunctive
- verkabelten first-person indicative plural
- verkabeltest indicative preterite second-person
- verkabeltet indicative plural preterite
- verkabel! imperative singular
- verkabele! imperative singular
- verkabelt! imperative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is verkabeln in German?
verkabeln appears about once in every 6 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).