verkommen
German, verb
verkommen is spelled V-E-R-K-O-M-M-E-N (9 letters) and appears 2.1 times per million words in written German, the 23,467th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Verkommen is a German verb meaning “to go bad, to decay” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a past participle of verkommen. With a capital, Verkommen is a different word: “gerund of verkommen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “schlecht werden”.
What does verkommen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to go bad, to decay
adjective
- 1
debauched, depraved
- 2
reprobate
verb
- 1
past participle of verkommen
noun
- 1
neutergerund of verkommen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. schlecht werden 2. sein Niveau zum Schlechteren hin verlieren
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 verkommen
- verkommt present singular third-person
- verkam past
- verkäme past subjunctive
- sein auxiliary
- 4 strong
- verkommend participle present
- verkomme first-person indicative present
- verkommst indicative present second-person
- verkommest second-person singular subjunctive
- verkommet plural second-person subjunctive
- verkamen first-person indicative plural
- verkämen first-person formal plural
- verkamst indicative preterite second-person
- verkamt indicative plural preterite
- verkämest formal rare second-person
- verkämst formal rare second-person
- verkämet formal plural rare
- verkämt formal plural rare
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to verkommen
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is verkommen in German?
verkommen appears 2.1 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).