verunreinigen
German, verb
verunreinigen is spelled V-E-R-U-N-R-E-I-N-I-G-E-N (13 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written German, the 96,776th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Verunreinigen is a German verb meaning “to contaminate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Verunreinigen is a different word: “gerund of verunreinigen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “weniger sauber machen, schmutzig machen”.
What does verunreinigen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to contaminate
- 2
to dirty
noun
- 1
neutergerund of verunreinigen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. weniger sauber machen, schmutzig machen
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 verunreinigen
- verunreinigt present singular third-person
- verunreinigte past
- haben auxiliary
- verunreinigend participle present
- verunreinige first-person indicative present
- verunreinigst indicative present second-person
- verunreinigest second-person singular subjunctive
- verunreiniget plural second-person subjunctive
- verunreinigten first-person indicative plural
- verunreinigtest indicative preterite second-person
- verunreinigtet indicative plural preterite
- verunreinig imperative second-person singular
- habe verunreinigt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben verunreinigt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- verunreinig! imperative singular
- verunreinige! imperative singular
- verunreinigt! imperative plural
- verunreinigt haben active infinitive perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to verunreinigen
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is verunreinigen in German?
verunreinigen appears about once in every 4 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).