verrennen
German, verb
verrennen is spelled V-E-R-R-E-N-N-E-N (9 letters) and appears about once in every 11 million words in written German, the 179,801st most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Verrennen is a German verb meaning “to go in the wrong direction (in his thoughts, statements, actions); to cling stubbornly to something” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Verrennen is a different word: “gerund of verrennen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “(beim Denken) auf einem falschen Weg sein, eine falsche Richtung einschlagen”.
What does verrennen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to go in the wrong direction (in his thoughts, statements, actions); to cling stubbornly to something
Er hat sich in eine unrealistische Idee verrannt.
noun
- 1
neutergerund of verrennen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. (beim Denken) auf einem falschen Weg sein, eine falsche Richtung einschlagen 2. beharrlich, eigensinnig an etwas festhalten, verblendet sein
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 verrennen
- verrennt present singular third-person
- verrannte past
- verrannt participle past
- verrennte past subjunctive
- haben auxiliary
- verrennend participle present
- verrenne first-person indicative present
- verrennst indicative present second-person
- verrennest second-person singular subjunctive
- verrennet plural second-person subjunctive
- verrannten first-person indicative plural
- verrennten first-person formal plural
- verranntest indicative preterite second-person
- verranntet indicative plural preterite
- verrenntest formal rare second-person
- verrenntet formal plural rare
- verrenn imperative second-person singular
- habe verrannt first-person indicative multiword-construction
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is verrennen in German?
verrennen appears about once in every 11 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).