wegrennen
German, verb
wegrennen is spelled W-E-G-R-E-N-N-E-N (9 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written German, the 47,290th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Wegrennen is a German verb meaning “to bolt, to run, to run away” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Wegrennen is a different word: “gerund of wegrennen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “sehr schnell zu Fuß einen Ort verlassen”.
What does wegrennen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to bolt, to run, to run away
noun
- 1
neutergerund of wegrennen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. sehr schnell zu Fuß einen Ort verlassen
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 wegrennen
- rennt weg present singular third-person
- rannte weg past
- weggerannt participle past
- rennte weg past subjunctive
- sein auxiliary
- wegrennend participle present
- wegzurennen infinitive infinitive-zu
- renne weg first-person indicative present
- rennen weg first-person indicative plural
- rennst weg indicative present second-person
- rennest weg second-person singular subjunctive
- rennet weg plural second-person subjunctive
- rannten weg first-person indicative plural
- rennten weg first-person formal plural
- ranntest weg indicative preterite second-person
- ranntet weg indicative plural preterite
- renntest weg formal rare second-person
- renntet weg formal plural rare
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to wegrennen
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is wegrennen in German?
wegrennen appears about once in every 1 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).