verüben
German, verb
verüben is spelled V-E-R-Ü-B-E-N (7 letters) and appears 1.3 times per million words in written German, the 32,479th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Verüben is a German verb meaning “to commit, carry out, perpetrate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Verüben is a different word: “gerund of verüben”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “etwas Negatives, Schädliches ausführen”.
What does verüben mean in English?
verb
- 1
to commit, carry out, perpetrate
Die Polizei fasste den Täter, bevor er weitere Verbrechen verüben konnte.
noun
- 1
neutergerund of verüben
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. etwas Negatives, Schädliches ausführen
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 verüben
- verübt present singular third-person
- verübte past
- haben auxiliary
- verübend participle present
- verübe first-person indicative present
- verübst indicative present second-person
- verübest second-person singular subjunctive
- verübet plural second-person subjunctive
- verübten first-person indicative plural
- verübtest indicative preterite second-person
- verübtet indicative plural preterite
- verüb imperative second-person singular
- habe verübt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben verübt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- verübe! imperative singular
- verübt! imperative plural
- verübt haben active infinitive perfect
- verübt 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 verüben
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is verüben in German?
verüben appears 1.3 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).