verkürzen
German, verb
verkürzen is spelled V-E-R-K-Ü-R-Z-E-N (9 letters) and appears 3.4 times per million words in written German, the 16,394th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Verkürzen is a German verb meaning “to shorten” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Verkürzen is a different word: “gerund of verkürzen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “in der Länge kleiner machen”.
What does verkürzen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to shorten
- 2
to shorten (become shorter)
- 3
to reduce (in distance, duration, quantity)
noun
- 1
neutergerund of verkürzen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. in der Länge kleiner machen
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 verkürzen
- verkürzt present singular third-person
- verkürzte past
- haben auxiliary
- verkürzend participle present
- verkürze first-person indicative present
- verkürzest second-person singular subjunctive
- verkürzet plural second-person subjunctive
- verkürzten first-person indicative plural
- verkürztest indicative preterite second-person
- verkürztet indicative plural preterite
- verkürz imperative second-person singular
- habe verkürzt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben verkürzt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- verkürz! imperative singular
- verkürze! imperative singular
- verkürzt! imperative plural
- verkürzt haben active infinitive perfect
- verkürzt werden processual-passive infinitive present
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to verkürzen
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is verkürzen in German?
verkürzen appears 3.4 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).