verpönen
German, verb
verpönen is spelled V-E-R-P-Ö-N-E-N (8 letters) and appears about once in every 66 million words in written German, the 501,868th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Verpönen is a German verb meaning “to frown upon, to disapprove” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Verpönen is a different word: “gerund of verpönen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “(mit gerunzelter Stirn) ablehnen, als nicht angemessen oder passend missbilligen”.
What does verpönen mean in English?
verb
- 1
datedto frown upon, to disapprove
noun
- 1
neutergerund of verpönen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. (mit gerunzelter Stirn) ablehnen, als nicht angemessen oder passend missbilligen
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 verpönen
- verpönt present singular third-person
- verpönte past
- haben auxiliary
- verpönend participle present
- verpöne first-person indicative present
- verpönst indicative present second-person
- verpönest second-person singular subjunctive
- verpönet plural second-person subjunctive
- verpönten first-person indicative plural
- verpöntest indicative preterite second-person
- verpöntet indicative plural preterite
- verpön imperative second-person singular
- habe verpönt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben verpönt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- verpön! imperative singular
- verpöne! imperative singular
- verpönt! imperative plural
- verpönt haben active infinitive perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is verpönen in German?
verpönen appears about once in every 66 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).