verwunschen
German, adjective
verwunschen is spelled V-E-R-W-U-N-S-C-H-E-N (11 letters) and appears about once in every 11 million words in written German, the 184,742nd most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Verwunschen is a German adjective meaning “enchanted, bewitched, romantic, forgotten” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an umlaut, verwünschen is a different word: “to curse; to damn; to wish evil upon”. On this page, Verwünschen is a different word: “gerund of verwünschen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “mit einem Zauber belegt”.
What does verwunschen mean in English?
adjective
- 1
enchanted, bewitched, romantic, forgotten
ein verwunschenes Schloss
verb
- 1
to curse; to damn; to wish evil upon
- 2
archaicto transform (into something else) by witchcraft; to bewitch
noun
- 1
neutergerund of verwünschen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. jemanden oder etwas durch Zauber in etwas anderes verwandeln 2. jemandem etwas Böses wünschen
adjective: 1. mit einem Zauber belegt
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 verwunschen
- verwünscht present singular third-person
- verwünschte past
- haben auxiliary
- verwünschend participle present
- verwünsche first-person indicative present
- verwünschst indicative present second-person
- verwünschest second-person singular subjunctive
- verwünschet plural second-person subjunctive
- verwünschten first-person indicative plural
- verwünschtest indicative preterite second-person
- verwünschtet indicative plural preterite
- verwünsch imperative second-person singular
- habe verwünscht first-person indicative multiword-construction
- verwünsch! imperative singular
- verwünsche! imperative singular
- verwünscht! imperative plural
- verwünscht haben active infinitive perfect
- verwünscht werden processual-passive infinitive present
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is verwunschen in German?
verwunschen appears about once in every 11 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).