abzäunen
German, verb
abzäunen is spelled A-B-Z-Ä-U-N-E-N (8 letters) and appears about once in every 98 million words in written German, the 625,801st most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Abzäunen is a German verb meaning “to fence off” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Abzäunen is a different word: “gerund of abzäunen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “durch einen Zaun abgrenzen”.
What does abzäunen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to fence off
noun
- 1
neutergerund of abzäunen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. durch einen Zaun abgrenzen
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 abzäunen
- zäunt ab present singular third-person
- zäunte ab past
- abgezäunt participle past
- haben auxiliary
- abzäunend participle present
- abzuzäunen infinitive infinitive-zu
- zäune ab first-person indicative present
- zäunen ab first-person indicative plural
- zäunst ab indicative present second-person
- zäunest ab second-person singular subjunctive
- zäunet ab plural second-person subjunctive
- zäunten ab first-person indicative plural
- zäuntest ab indicative preterite second-person
- zäuntet ab indicative plural preterite
- zäune ab! imperative singular
- zäunt ab! imperative plural
- abgezäunt haben active infinitive perfect
- abgezäunt werden processual-passive infinitive present
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is abzäunen in German?
abzäunen appears about once in every 98 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).