vertagen
German, verb
vertagen is spelled V-E-R-T-A-G-E-N (8 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written German, the 60,441st most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Vertagen is a German verb meaning “to adjourn, postpone, defer” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Vertagen is a different word: “gerund of vertagen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “auf einen späteren Zeitpunkt verschieben”.
What does vertagen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to adjourn, postpone, defer
noun
- 1
neutergerund of vertagen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. auf einen späteren Zeitpunkt verschieben 2. transitiv, von zu erledigenden Arbeiten, Entscheidungen …: etwas auf vertagen; etwas wird auf vertagt 3. reflexiv, von offiziellen Terminen wie von Gerichten, Gremien oder Wahlen
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 vertagen
- vertagt present singular third-person
- vertagte past
- haben auxiliary
- vertagend participle present
- vertage first-person indicative present
- vertagst indicative present second-person
- vertagest second-person singular subjunctive
- vertaget plural second-person subjunctive
- vertagten first-person indicative plural
- vertagtest indicative preterite second-person
- vertagtet indicative plural preterite
- vertag imperative second-person singular
- habe vertagt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben vertagt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- vertag! imperative singular
- vertage! imperative singular
- vertagt! imperative plural
- vertagt haben active infinitive perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to vertagen
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is vertagen in German?
vertagen 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).