vermiesen
German, verb/fɛʁˈmiːzən/
vermiesen is spelled V-E-R-M-I-E-S-E-N (9 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written German, the 41,722nd most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Vermiesen is a German verb meaning “to spoil, to ruin” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “etwas Schönes (das jemand anderes erlebt, wie Freude, Spass oder gute Stimmung) stören/verderben”.
What does vermiesen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to spoil, to ruin
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. etwas Schönes (das jemand anderes erlebt, wie Freude, Spass oder gute Stimmung) stören/verderben
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 vermiesen
- vermiest present singular third-person
- vermieste past
- haben auxiliary
- vermiesend participle present
- vermiese first-person indicative present
- vermiesest second-person singular subjunctive
- vermieset plural second-person subjunctive
- vermiesten first-person indicative plural
- vermiestest indicative preterite second-person
- vermiestet indicative plural preterite
- vermies imperative second-person singular
- habe vermiest first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben vermiest first-person indicative multiword-construction
- vermies! imperative singular
- vermiese! imperative singular
- vermiest! imperative plural
- vermiest haben active infinitive perfect
- vermiest werden processual-passive infinitive present
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce vermiesen?
- /fɛʁˈmiːzən/
- [fɛɐ̯ˈmiːzn̩]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is vermiesen in German?
vermiesen appears about once in every 1 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).