verklappen
German, verb
verklappen is spelled V-E-R-K-L-A-P-P-E-N (10 letters) and appears about once in every 33 million words in written German, the 339,062nd most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Verklappen is a German verb meaning “to dump waste into a body of water” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Verklappen is a different word: “gerund of verklappen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “Abfälle, Chemikalien, Giftstoffe und Ähnliches in Gewässer, meistens ins Meer, verbringen”.
What does verklappen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to dump waste into a body of water
noun
- 1
neutergerund of verklappen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Abfälle, Chemikalien, Giftstoffe und Ähnliches in Gewässer, meistens ins Meer, verbringen
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 verklappen
- verklappt present singular third-person
- verklappte past
- haben auxiliary
- verklappend participle present
- verklappe first-person indicative present
- verklappst indicative present second-person
- verklappest second-person singular subjunctive
- verklappet plural second-person subjunctive
- verklappten first-person indicative plural
- verklapptest indicative preterite second-person
- verklapptet indicative plural preterite
- verklapp imperative second-person singular
- habe verklappt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben verklappt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- verklapp! imperative singular
- verklappe! imperative singular
- verklappt! imperative plural
- verklappt haben active infinitive perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is verklappen in German?
verklappen appears about once in every 33 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).