verunglücken
German, verb
verunglücken is spelled V-E-R-U-N-G-L-Ü-C-K-E-N (12 letters) and appears about once in every 5 million words in written German, the 107,140th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Verunglücken is a German verb meaning “to have a serious accident (usually implying grave injury and/or danger to life, often even death)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Verunglücken is a different word: “gerund of verunglücken”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “einen Unfall erleiden”.
What does verunglücken mean in English?
verb
- 1
to have a serious accident (usually implying grave injury and/or danger to life, often even death)
- 2
to be a fiasco
noun
- 1
neutergerund of verunglücken
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. einen Unfall erleiden 2. nicht gelingen
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 verunglücken
- verunglückt present singular third-person
- verunglückte past
- sein auxiliary
- verunglückend participle present
- verunglücke first-person indicative present
- verunglückst indicative present second-person
- verunglückest second-person singular subjunctive
- verunglücket plural second-person subjunctive
- verunglückten first-person indicative plural
- verunglücktest indicative preterite second-person
- verunglücktet indicative plural preterite
- verunglück imperative second-person singular
- bin verunglückt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- sind verunglückt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- verunglück! imperative singular
- verunglücke! imperative singular
- verunglückt! imperative plural
- verunglückt sein active infinitive perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is verunglücken in German?
verunglücken appears about once in every 5 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).