verrenken
German, verb
verrenken is spelled V-E-R-R-E-N-K-E-N (9 letters) and appears about once in every 6 million words in written German, the 127,251st most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Verrenken is a German verb meaning “to strain, to wrench (a body part)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Verrenken is a different word: “gerund of verrenken”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “Gelenke (durch falsche Bewegungen) verletzen”.
What does verrenken mean in English?
verb
- 1
to strain, to wrench (a body part)
noun
- 1
neutergerund of verrenken
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Gelenke (durch falsche Bewegungen) verletzen 2. Körperteile übertrieben stark bewegen
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 verrenken
- verrenkt present singular third-person
- verrenkte past
- haben auxiliary
- verrenkend participle present
- verrenke first-person indicative present
- verrenkst indicative present second-person
- verrenkest second-person singular subjunctive
- verrenket plural second-person subjunctive
- verrenkten first-person indicative plural
- verrenktest indicative preterite second-person
- verrenktet indicative plural preterite
- verrenk imperative second-person singular
- habe verrenkt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben verrenkt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- verrenk! imperative singular
- verrenke! imperative singular
- verrenkt! imperative plural
- verrenkt haben active infinitive perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to verrenken
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is verrenken in German?
verrenken appears about once in every 6 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).