verzinnen
German, verb
verzinnen is spelled V-E-R-Z-I-N-N-E-N (9 letters) and appears about once in every 40 million words in written German, the 376,420th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Verzinnen is a German verb meaning “to tin-plate (cover with tin)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Verzinnen is a different word: “gerund of verzinnen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “etwas mit einem Zinnüberzug versehen”.
What does verzinnen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to tin-plate (cover with tin)
noun
- 1
neutergerund of verzinnen
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 Zinnüberzug versehen
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 verzinnen
- verzinnt present singular third-person
- verzinnte past
- haben auxiliary
- verzinnend participle present
- verzinne first-person indicative present
- verzinnst indicative present second-person
- verzinnest second-person singular subjunctive
- verzinnet plural second-person subjunctive
- verzinnten first-person indicative plural
- verzinntest indicative preterite second-person
- verzinntet indicative plural preterite
- verzinn imperative second-person singular
- habe verzinnt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben verzinnt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- verzinn! imperative singular
- verzinne! imperative singular
- verzinnt! imperative plural
- verzinnt haben active infinitive perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is verzinnen in German?
verzinnen appears about once in every 40 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).