verschrauben
German, verb
verschrauben is spelled V-E-R-S-C-H-R-A-U-B-E-N (12 letters) and appears about once in every 17 million words in written German, the 228,970th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Verschrauben is a German verb meaning “to screw together” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Verschrauben is a different word: “gerund of verschrauben”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “mittels Schrauben miteinander verbinden/montieren”.
What does verschrauben mean in English?
verb
- 1
to screw together
noun
- 1
neutergerund of verschrauben
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. mittels Schrauben miteinander verbinden/montieren
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 verschrauben
- verschraubt present singular third-person
- verschraubte past
- haben auxiliary
- verschraubend participle present
- verschraube first-person indicative present
- verschraubst indicative present second-person
- verschraubest second-person singular subjunctive
- verschraubet plural second-person subjunctive
- verschraubten first-person indicative plural
- verschraubtest indicative preterite second-person
- verschraubtet indicative plural preterite
- verschraub imperative second-person singular
- habe verschraubt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben verschraubt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- verschraub! imperative singular
- verschraube! imperative singular
- verschraubt! imperative plural
- verschraubt haben active infinitive perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is verschrauben in German?
verschrauben appears about once in every 17 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).