vermüllen
German, verb
vermüllen is spelled V-E-R-M-Ü-L-L-E-N (9 letters) and appears about once in every 42 million words in written German, the 386,396th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Vermüllen is a German verb meaning “to pollute a location with trash” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Vermüllen is a different word: “gerund of vermüllen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “durch Abfall (Müll) beeinträchtigt werden”.
What does vermüllen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to pollute a location with trash
- 2
to become polluted with trash
noun
- 1
neutergerund of vermüllen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. durch Abfall (Müll) beeinträchtigt werden 2. größere Mengen Abfall (oder auch ungenutzte, überflüssige Dinge) an einem Ort hinterlassen
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 vermüllen
- vermüllt present singular third-person
- vermüllte past
- haben auxiliary
- sein auxiliary
- haben or sein auxiliary
- vermüllend participle present
- vermülle first-person indicative present
- vermüllst indicative present second-person
- vermüllest second-person singular subjunctive
- vermüllet plural second-person subjunctive
- vermüllten first-person indicative plural
- vermülltest indicative preterite second-person
- vermülltet indicative plural preterite
- vermüll imperative second-person singular
- vermüll! imperative singular
- vermülle! imperative singular
- vermüllt! imperative plural
- vermüllt haben active infinitive perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is vermüllen in German?
vermüllen appears about once in every 42 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).