verwehen
German, verb
verwehen is spelled V-E-R-W-E-H-E-N (8 letters) and appears about once in every 14 million words in written German, the 208,435th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Verwehen is a German verb meaning “to blow away (wind)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Verwehen is a different word: “gerund of verwehen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “etwas mit einem Luftzug forttragen, umlagern”.
What does verwehen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to blow away (wind)
noun
- 1
neutergerund of verwehen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. etwas mit einem Luftzug forttragen, umlagern 2. etwas mit einem Luftzug verdecken, überdecken, unkenntlich 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 verwehen
- verweht present singular third-person
- verwehte past
- haben auxiliary
- verwehend participle present
- verwehe first-person indicative present
- verwehst indicative present second-person
- verwehest second-person singular subjunctive
- verwehet plural second-person subjunctive
- verwehten first-person indicative plural
- verwehtest indicative preterite second-person
- verwehtet indicative plural preterite
- verweh imperative second-person singular
- habe verweht first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben verweht first-person indicative multiword-construction
- verwehe! imperative singular
- verweht! imperative plural
- sein auxiliary perfect
- verweht haben auxiliary active infinitive
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is verwehen in German?
verwehen appears about once in every 14 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).