verzinsen
German, verb
verzinsen is spelled V-E-R-Z-I-N-S-E-N (9 letters) and appears about once in every 6 million words in written German, the 129,075th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Verzinsen is a German verb meaning “to pay interest for” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Verzinsen is a different word: “gerund of verzinsen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “einen erwirtschafteten Ertrag (Zinsen) auszahlen/gutschreiben”.
What does verzinsen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to pay interest for
- 2
to earn, yield interest
noun
- 1
neutergerund of verzinsen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. einen erwirtschafteten Ertrag (Zinsen) auszahlen/gutschreiben 2. Ertrag/Zins abwerfen
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 verzinsen
- verzinst present singular third-person
- verzinste past
- haben auxiliary
- verzinsend participle present
- verzinse first-person indicative present
- verzinsest second-person singular subjunctive
- verzinset plural second-person subjunctive
- verzinsten first-person indicative plural
- verzinstest indicative preterite second-person
- verzinstet indicative plural preterite
- verzins imperative second-person singular
- habe verzinst first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben verzinst first-person indicative multiword-construction
- verzins! imperative singular
- verzinse! imperative singular
- verzinst! imperative plural
- verzinst haben active infinitive perfect
- verzinst werden processual-passive infinitive present
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is verzinsen in German?
verzinsen appears about once in every 6 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).