anzahlen
German, verb
anzahlen is spelled A-N-Z-A-H-L-E-N (8 letters) and appears about once in every 5 million words in written German, the 108,721st most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Anzahlen is a German verb meaning “to make a down payment, to put down a deposit” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an umlaut, anzählen is a different word: “to count down”. On this page, Anzählen is a different word: “gerund of anzählen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “einen ersten Teilbetrag einer Geldsumme leisten”.
What does anzahlen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to make a down payment, to put down a deposit
verb
- 1
to count down
- 2
to make or consider down for the count
noun
- 1
neutergerund of anzählen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. einen ersten Teilbetrag einer Geldsumme leisten
verb: 1. einem niedergeschlagenen Boxer die Zahlen von 1 an nennen, um in dieser Zeit (maximal 10 Sekunden) entscheiden zu können, ob der Kampf abgebrochen werden muss
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 anzahlen
- zählt an present singular third-person
- zählte an past
- angezählt participle past
- haben auxiliary
- anzählend participle present
- anzuzählen infinitive infinitive-zu
- zähle an first-person indicative present
- zählen an first-person indicative plural
- zählst an indicative present second-person
- zählest an second-person singular subjunctive
- zählet an plural second-person subjunctive
- zählten an first-person indicative plural
- zähltest an indicative preterite second-person
- zähltet an indicative plural preterite
- zahle an present
- zahlst an present
- zahlt an present
- zahlte an past
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is anzahlen in German?
anzahlen appears about once in every 5 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).