verrinnen
German, verb
verrinnen is spelled V-E-R-R-I-N-N-E-N (9 letters) and appears about once in every 24 million words in written German, the 282,248th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Verrinnen is a German verb meaning “to trickle” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Verrinnen is a different word: “gerund of verrinnen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “(als Flüssigkeit, aber auch als Sand) im Untergrund verschwinden, aufgesogen werden, sich nicht halten lassen”.
What does verrinnen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to trickle
- 2
to go away, to disappear; especially of time to elapse, to pass (pointlessly)
die Zeit verrinnt
noun
- 1
neutergerund of verrinnen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. (als Flüssigkeit, aber auch als Sand) im Untergrund verschwinden, aufgesogen werden, sich nicht halten lassen 2. (als Zeitraum) vorbeigehen, passieren
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 verrinnen
- verrinnt present singular third-person
- verrann past
- verronnen participle past
- verränne past subjunctive
- verrönne past subjunctive
- sein auxiliary
- 3 strong
- verrinnend participle present
- verrinne singular subjunctive subjunctive-i
- verrannen indicative plural preterite
- verrännen formal plural rare
- verrönnen formal plural rare
- ist verronnen indicative multiword-construction perfect
- sind verronnen indicative multiword-construction perfect
- sei verronnen multiword-construction perfect singular
- seien verronnen multiword-construction perfect plural
- war verronnen indicative multiword-construction pluperfect
- waren verronnen indicative multiword-construction pluperfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to verrinnen
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is verrinnen in German?
verrinnen appears about once in every 24 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).