verwaisen
German, verb
verwaisen is spelled V-E-R-W-A-I-S-E-N (9 letters) and appears about once in every 32 million words in written German, the 334,656th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Verwaisen is a German verb meaning “to be orphaned, to become an orphan” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Verwaisen is a different word: “gerund of verwaisen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “seine Eltern verlieren; zur Waise werden”.
What does verwaisen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to be orphaned, to become an orphan
- 2
to lose one's child
- 3
to be abandoned, to become vacant
noun
- 1
neutergerund of verwaisen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. seine Eltern verlieren; zur Waise werden 2. ungenutzt sein/bleiben, verlassen werden
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 verwaisen
- verwaist present singular third-person
- verwaiste past
- sein auxiliary
- verwaisend participle present
- verwaise first-person indicative present
- verwaisest second-person singular subjunctive
- verwaiset plural second-person subjunctive
- verwaisten first-person indicative plural
- verwaistest indicative preterite second-person
- verwaistet indicative plural preterite
- verwais imperative second-person singular
- bin verwaist first-person indicative multiword-construction
- sind verwaist first-person indicative multiword-construction
- verwaise! imperative singular
- verwaist! imperative plural
- verwaist sein active infinitive perfect
- zu verwaisen active extended infinitive
- verwaist zu sein active extended infinitive
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is verwaisen in German?
verwaisen appears about once in every 32 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).