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verklumpen

German, verb

verklumpen is spelled V-E-R-K-L-U-M-P-E-N (10 letters) and appears about once in every 17 million words in written German, the 228,970th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Verklumpen is a German verb meaning “to clump together, to clot” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Verklumpen is a different word: “clumping together”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “sich zu größeren Ansammlungen (Klumpen) zusammenfügen”.

What does verklumpen mean in English?

verb

  1. 1

    to clump together, to clot

  2. 2

    to agglutinate

noun

as Verklumpen
  1. 1

    neuterclumping together

  2. 2

    neuteragglutination

Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How German dictionaries define it

verb: 1. sich zu größeren Ansammlungen (Klumpen) zusammenfügen

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 verklumpen

  • verklumpt present singular third-person
  • verklumpte past
  • sein auxiliary
  • verklumpend participle present
  • verklumpe first-person indicative present
  • verklumpst indicative present second-person
  • verklumpest second-person singular subjunctive
  • verklumpet plural second-person subjunctive
  • verklumpten first-person indicative plural
  • verklumptest indicative preterite second-person
  • verklumptet indicative plural preterite
  • verklump imperative second-person singular
  • bin verklumpt first-person indicative multiword-construction
  • sind verklumpt first-person indicative multiword-construction
  • verklump! imperative singular
  • verklumpe! imperative singular
  • verklumpt! imperative plural
  • haben auxiliary perfect

Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How common is verklumpen in German?

verklumpen appears about once in every 17 million words in written German.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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