vertäuen
German, verb/fɛɐ̯ˈtɔɪ̯ən/
vertäuen is spelled V-E-R-T-Ä-U-E-N (8 letters) and appears about once in every 40 million words in written German, the 376,420th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Vertäuen is a German verb meaning “to moor” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “etwas mit einem Seil (Tau) festmachen”.
What does vertäuen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to moor
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. etwas mit einem Seil (Tau) festmachen
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 vertäuen
- vertäut present singular third-person
- vertäute past
- haben auxiliary
- vertäuend participle present
- vertäue first-person indicative present
- vertäust indicative present second-person
- vertäuest second-person singular subjunctive
- vertäuet plural second-person subjunctive
- vertäuten first-person indicative plural
- vertäutest indicative preterite second-person
- vertäutet indicative plural preterite
- vertäu imperative second-person singular
- habe vertäut first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben vertäut first-person indicative multiword-construction
- vertäue! imperative singular
- vertäut! imperative plural
- vertäut haben active infinitive perfect
- vertäut werden processual-passive infinitive present
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce vertäuen?
- /fɛɐ̯ˈtɔɪ̯ən/
- [fɛɐ̯ˈtɔɪ̯ən]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to vertäuen
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is vertäuen in German?
vertäuen appears about once in every 40 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).