versäumen
German, verb
versäumen is spelled V-E-R-S-Ä-U-M-E-N (9 letters) and appears 1.3 times per million words in written German, the 32,981st most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Versäumen is a German verb meaning “to miss, to omit, to fail to do something important” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Versäumen is a different word: “gerund of versäumen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “etwas, das erforderlich wäre, nicht tun”.
What does versäumen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to miss, to omit, to fail to do something important
Du hast die Frist versäumt.
noun
- 1
neutergerund of versäumen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. etwas, das erforderlich wäre, nicht tun 2. etwas verpassen
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 versäumen
- versäumt present singular third-person
- versäumte past
- haben auxiliary
- versäumend participle present
- versäume first-person indicative present
- versäumst indicative present second-person
- versäumest second-person singular subjunctive
- versäumet plural second-person subjunctive
- versäumten first-person indicative plural
- versäumtest indicative preterite second-person
- versäumtet indicative plural preterite
- versäum imperative second-person singular
- habe versäumt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben versäumt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- vers. abbreviation
- versäume! imperative singular
- versäumt! imperative plural
- versäumt haben active infinitive perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to versäumen
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is versäumen in German?
versäumen appears 1.3 times per million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).