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verrücken

German, verb

verrücken is spelled V-E-R-R-Ü-C-K-E-N (9 letters) and appears about once in every 7 million words in written German, the 134,701st most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Verrücken is a German verb meaning “to shift, to move by pushing” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Verrücken is a different word: “gerund of verrücken”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “schiebend bewegen”.

What does verrücken mean in English?

verb

  1. 1

    to shift, to move by pushing

    Die Bank ist am Boden verankert und lässt sich nicht verrücken.

noun

as Verrücken
  1. 1

    neutergerund of verrücken

Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How German dictionaries define it

verb: 1. schiebend 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 verrücken

  • verrückt present singular third-person
  • verrückte past
  • haben auxiliary
  • verrückend participle present
  • verrücke first-person indicative present
  • verrückst indicative present second-person
  • verrückest second-person singular subjunctive
  • verrücket plural second-person subjunctive
  • verrückten first-person indicative plural
  • verrücktest indicative preterite second-person
  • verrücktet indicative plural preterite
  • verrück imperative second-person singular
  • habe verrückt first-person indicative multiword-construction
  • haben verrückt first-person indicative multiword-construction
  • verrück! imperative singular
  • verrücke! imperative singular
  • verrückt! imperative plural
  • verrückt haben active infinitive perfect

Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How common is verrücken in German?

verrücken appears about once in every 7 million words in written German.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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