verwundern
German, verb
verwundern is spelled V-E-R-W-U-N-D-E-R-N (10 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written German, the 39,859th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Verwundern is a German verb meaning “to amaze, to astonish, to astound” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Verwundern is a different word: “gerund of verwundern”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “jemanden erstaunen lassen, in Erstaunen über etwas versetzen”.
What does verwundern mean in English?
verb
- 1
to amaze, to astonish, to astound
noun
- 1
neutergerund of verwundern
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. jemanden erstaunen lassen, in Erstaunen über etwas versetzen
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 verwundern
- verwundert present singular third-person
- verwunderte past
- haben auxiliary
- verwundernd participle present
- verwundre first-person indicative present
- verwundere first-person indicative present
- verwunder first-person indicative present
- verwunderst indicative present second-person
- verwunderest second-person singular subjunctive
- verwundrest second-person singular subjunctive
- verwunderet plural second-person subjunctive
- verwundret plural second-person subjunctive
- verwunderten first-person indicative plural
- verwundertest indicative preterite second-person
- verwundertet indicative plural preterite
- verwundere! imperative singular
- verwundert! imperative plural
- verwundert haben active infinitive perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to verwundern
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is verwundern in German?
verwundern appears about once in every 1 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).