verzagen
German, verb
verzagen is a German verb meaning “to despond” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Verzagen is a different word: “gerund of verzagen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “entmutigt aufgeben, die Hoffnung / die Zuversicht verlieren”.
What does verzagen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to despond
noun
- 1
neutergerund of verzagen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. entmutigt aufgeben, die Hoffnung / die Zuversicht verlieren
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 verzagen
- verzagt present singular third-person
- verzagte past
- haben auxiliary
- verzagend participle present
- verzage first-person indicative present
- verzagst indicative present second-person
- verzagest second-person singular subjunctive
- verzaget plural second-person subjunctive
- verzagten first-person indicative plural
- verzagtest indicative preterite second-person
- verzagtet indicative plural preterite
- verzag imperative second-person singular
- habe verzagt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben verzagt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- verzag! imperative singular
- verzagt! imperative plural
- sein auxiliary perfect
- verzagt haben auxiliary active infinitive
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to verzagen
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is verzagen in German?
verzagen appears about once in every 2 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).