What does “gemobbt” mean in German?
Junge wird gemobbt – dann kommt die Biker-Gang
A2 German listening practice · German · Picked for people who know a little
This story about a bullied boy uses gemobbt, the past participle of mobben — a verb Germans built directly from English “to mob.” Once borrowed, it was fully naturalized: mobben conjugates like any regular German weak verb, with the standard ge-…-t participle pattern, exactly as if it had always been German.
German absorbs English verbs this way all the time — see also chillen (to chill, → gechillt), downloaden (→ gedownloadet/downgeloadet), and updaten (→ upgedatet). The loanword supplies the meaning; German grammar supplies the conjugation, no exceptions made.
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Source: wordfreq 3.1.1 (general) · SUBTLEX-DE 2011 (spoken). These numbers are close, not perfect.