verpressen
German, verb
verpressen is spelled V-E-R-P-R-E-S-S-E-N (10 letters) and appears about once in every 17 million words in written German, the 228,970th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Verpressen is a German verb meaning “to crimp” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Verpressen is a different word: “gerund of verpressen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “einen Stoff (beispielsweise ein Gas oder eine Flüssigkeit) mit Hilfe von Druck unter die Erdoberfläche bringen”.
What does verpressen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to crimp
- 2
to grout
noun
- 1
neutergerund of verpressen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. einen Stoff (beispielsweise ein Gas oder eine Flüssigkeit) mit Hilfe von Druck unter die Erdoberfläche bringen 2. eine stabile Verbindung mit Hilfe von hohem Druck zwischen Materialien/Werkstücken herstellen
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 verpressen
- verpresst present singular third-person
- verpresste past
- haben auxiliary
- verpressend participle present
- verpresse first-person indicative present
- verpressest second-person singular subjunctive
- verpresset plural second-person subjunctive
- verpressten first-person indicative plural
- verpresstest indicative preterite second-person
- verpresstet indicative plural preterite
- verpress imperative second-person singular
- habe verpresst first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben verpresst first-person indicative multiword-construction
- verpress! imperative singular
- verpresse! imperative singular
- verpresst! imperative plural
- verpresst haben active infinitive perfect
- verpresst werden processual-passive infinitive present
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is verpressen in German?
verpressen appears about once in every 17 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).