vertuschen
German, verb
vertuschen is spelled V-E-R-T-U-S-C-H-E-N (10 letters) and appears 2.5 times per million words in written German, the 20,880th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Vertuschen is a German verb meaning “to cover up, to keep secret” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Vertuschen is a different word: “gerund of vertuschen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “einen Sachverhalt verbergen, damit er nicht öffentlich bekannt wird”.
What does vertuschen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to cover up, to keep secret
noun
- 1
neutergerund of vertuschen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. einen Sachverhalt verbergen, damit er nicht öffentlich bekannt wird
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 vertuschen
- vertuscht present singular third-person
- vertuschte past
- haben auxiliary
- vertuschend participle present
- vertusche first-person indicative present
- vertuschst indicative present second-person
- vertuschest second-person singular subjunctive
- vertuschet plural second-person subjunctive
- vertuschten first-person indicative plural
- vertuschtest indicative preterite second-person
- vertuschtet indicative plural preterite
- vertusch imperative second-person singular
- habe vertuscht first-person indicative multiword-construction
- vertusch! imperative singular
- vertusche! imperative singular
- vertuscht! imperative plural
- vertuscht haben active infinitive perfect
- vertuscht werden processual-passive infinitive present
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to vertuschen
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is vertuschen in German?
vertuschen appears 2.5 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).