wegdenken
German, verb
wegdenken is spelled W-E-G-D-E-N-K-E-N (9 letters) and appears about once in every 10 million words in written German, the 165,772nd most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Wegdenken is a German verb meaning “to imagine a situation without” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Wegdenken is a different word: “gerund of wegdenken”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “jemand oder etwas gedanklich ausblenden, entfernen, als nicht vorhanden vorstellen”.
What does wegdenken mean in English?
verb
- 1
to imagine a situation without
noun
- 1
neutergerund of wegdenken
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. jemand oder etwas gedanklich ausblenden, entfernen, als nicht vorhanden vorstellen
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 wegdenken
- denkt weg present singular third-person
- dachte weg past
- weggedacht participle past
- dächte weg past subjunctive
- haben auxiliary
- wegdenkend participle present
- wegzudenken infinitive infinitive-zu
- denke weg first-person indicative present
- denken weg first-person indicative plural
- denkst weg indicative present second-person
- denkest weg second-person singular subjunctive
- denket weg plural second-person subjunctive
- dachten weg first-person indicative plural
- dächten weg first-person formal plural
- dachtest weg indicative preterite second-person
- dachtet weg indicative plural preterite
- dächtest weg formal rare second-person
- dächtet weg formal plural rare
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is wegdenken in German?
wegdenken appears about once in every 10 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).