verzerren
German, verb
verzerren is spelled V-E-R-Z-E-R-R-E-N (9 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written German, the 61,377th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Verzerren is a German verb meaning “to distort” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Verzerren is a different word: “gerund of verzerren”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “die Proportionen von etwas verändern”.
What does verzerren mean in English?
verb
- 1
to distort
noun
- 1
neutergerund of verzerren
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. die Proportionen von etwas verändern 2. so wiedergeben, dass es nicht mehr mit der Realität übereinstimmt 3. etwas überdehnen
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 verzerren
- verzerrt present singular third-person
- verzerrte past
- haben auxiliary
- verzerrend participle present
- verzerre first-person indicative present
- verzerrst indicative present second-person
- verzerrest second-person singular subjunctive
- verzerret plural second-person subjunctive
- verzerrten first-person indicative plural
- verzerrtest indicative preterite second-person
- verzerrtet indicative plural preterite
- verzerr imperative second-person singular
- habe verzerrt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben verzerrt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- verzerr! imperative singular
- verzerre! imperative singular
- verzerrt! imperative plural
- verzerrt haben active infinitive perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to verzerren
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is verzerren in German?
verzerren 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).