verschlafen
German, verb
verschlafen is spelled V-E-R-S-C-H-L-A-F-E-N (11 letters) and appears 3.5 times per million words in written German, the 16,125th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Verschlafen is a German verb meaning “to oversleep” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a past participle of verschlafen. With a capital, Verschlafen is a different word: “gerund of verschlafen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “ungeplant lange schlafen”.
What does verschlafen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to oversleep
- 2
to sleep away, sleep through (miss by sleeping)
den halben Tag verschlafen
adjective
- 1
sleepy
verb
- 1
past participle of verschlafen
noun
- 1
neutergerund of verschlafen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. schläfrig, schlafgezeichnet, obwohl wach dem Schlafe noch nicht entkommen
verb: 1. ungeplant lange schlafen 2. versäumen, verdrängen
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 verschlafen
- verschläft present singular third-person
- verschlief past
- haben auxiliary
- 7 strong
- verschlafend participle present
- verschlafe first-person indicative present
- verschläfst indicative present second-person
- verschlaft indicative plural present
- verschlafest second-person singular subjunctive
- verschlafet plural second-person subjunctive
- verschliefen first-person indicative plural
- verschliefe first-person formal rare
- verschliefst indicative preterite second-person
- verschlieft indicative plural preterite
- verschliefest formal rare second-person
- verschliefet formal plural rare
- verschlaf imperative second-person singular
- verschlafener comparative
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to verschlafen
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is verschlafen in German?
verschlafen appears 3.5 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).