versiegen
German, verb
versiegen is spelled V-E-R-S-I-E-G-E-N (9 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written German, the 68,093rd most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Versiegen is a German verb meaning “to dry up” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Versiegen is a different word: “gerund of versiegen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “langsam aber sicher weniger und weniger werden”.
What does versiegen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to dry up
noun
- 1
neutergerund of versiegen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. langsam aber sicher weniger und weniger werden
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 versiegen
- versiegt present singular third-person
- versiegte past
- haben auxiliary
- versiegend participle present
- versiege first-person indicative present
- versiegst indicative present second-person
- versiegest second-person singular subjunctive
- versieget plural second-person subjunctive
- versiegten first-person indicative plural
- versiegtest indicative preterite second-person
- versiegtet indicative plural preterite
- versieg imperative second-person singular
- habe versiegt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben versiegt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- versieg! imperative singular
- versiege! imperative singular
- versiegt! imperative plural
- sein auxiliary perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is versiegen in German?
versiegen appears about once in every 2 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).