verpennen
German, verb
verpennen is spelled V-E-R-P-E-N-N-E-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). Verpennen is a German verb meaning “to oversleep” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Verpennen is a different word: “gerund of verpennen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “einen gewissen Zeitraum hinter sich bringen, in dem man schläft (pennt)”.
What does verpennen mean in English?
verb
- 1
slangto oversleep
- 2
slangto sleep through
noun
- 1
neutergerund of verpennen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. einen gewissen Zeitraum hinter sich bringen, in dem man schläft (pennt) 2. etwas Zugesagtes nicht tun, weil man es, beziehungsweise den richtigen Zeitpunkt, vergessen hat
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 verpennen
- verpennt present singular third-person
- verpennte past
- haben auxiliary
- verpennend participle present
- verpenne first-person indicative present
- verpennst indicative present second-person
- verpennest second-person singular subjunctive
- verpennet plural second-person subjunctive
- verpennten first-person indicative plural
- verpenntest indicative preterite second-person
- verpenntet indicative plural preterite
- verpenn imperative second-person singular
- habe verpennt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben verpennt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- verpenn! imperative singular
- verpenne! imperative singular
- verpennt! imperative plural
- verpennt haben active infinitive perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to verpennen
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is verpennen in German?
verpennen 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).