vermodern
German, verb
vermodern is spelled V-E-R-M-O-D-E-R-N (9 letters) and appears about once in every 13 million words in written German, the 202,985th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Vermodern is a German verb meaning “To rot, decompose” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Vermodern is a different word: “gerund of vermodern”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “in feuchter Umgebung durch Bakterien zersetzt werden”.
What does vermodern mean in English?
verb
- 1
To rot, decompose.
noun
- 1
neutergerund of vermodern
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. in feuchter Umgebung durch Bakterien zersetzt werden 2. sehr lange Zeit ungebraucht/nicht aktiv an einem Ort liegen (und dadurch Schaden nehmen)
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 vermodern
- vermodert present singular third-person
- vermoderte past
- haben auxiliary
- vermodernd participle present
- vermodre first-person indicative present
- vermodere first-person indicative present
- vermoder first-person indicative present
- vermoderst indicative present second-person
- vermoderest second-person singular subjunctive
- vermodrest second-person singular subjunctive
- vermoderet plural second-person subjunctive
- vermodret plural second-person subjunctive
- vermoderten first-person indicative plural
- vermodertest indicative preterite second-person
- vermodertet indicative plural preterite
- vermoder! imperative singular
- vermodere! imperative singular
- vermodert! imperative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is vermodern in German?
vermodern appears about once in every 13 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).