widerrufen
German, verb
widerrufen is spelled W-I-D-E-R-R-U-F-E-N (10 letters) and appears 2.3 times per million words in written German, the 21,569th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Widerrufen is a German verb meaning “to revoke, rescind, cancel” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Widerrufen is a different word: “dative plural of Widerruf”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “etwas, das man gesagt oder geschrieben hat, offiziell zurücknehmen, für ungültig, nicht richtig erklären”.
What does widerrufen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to revoke, rescind, cancel
noun
- 1
masculinedative plural of Widerruf
noun
- 1
neutergerund of widerrufen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. etwas, das man gesagt oder geschrieben hat, offiziell zurücknehmen, für ungültig, nicht richtig erklären
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 widerrufen
- widerruft present singular third-person
- widerrief past
- haben auxiliary
- 7 strong
- widerrufend participle present
- widerrufe first-person indicative present
- widerrufst indicative present second-person
- widerrufest second-person singular subjunctive
- widerrufet plural second-person subjunctive
- widerriefen first-person indicative plural
- widerriefe first-person formal rare
- widerriefst indicative preterite second-person
- widerrieft indicative plural preterite
- widerriefest formal rare second-person
- widerriefet formal plural rare
- widerruf imperative second-person singular
- widerrufe! imperative singular
- widerruft! imperative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to widerrufen
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is widerrufen in German?
widerrufen appears 2.3 times per million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).