This is the 3981st most frequent German word.
verlage
"Verlage" is the plural form of "Verlag," which means "publishing house" or "publisher" in English.
In this sentence, 'Verlage' is used as a plural noun referring to publishers or publishing companies.
Die Verlage veröffentlichen regelmäßig neue Bücher.
The publishing houses regularly release new books.
Here, 'Verlagen' is the plural dative form of 'Verlag', used after the preposition 'mit'.
Ich habe gestern mit einigen Verlagen gesprochen.
I spoke with some publishing houses yesterday.
In this example, 'Verlage' is used in the nominative case as the subject of the sentence.