dreiteilen
German, verb
dreiteilen is spelled D-R-E-I-T-E-I-L-E-N (10 letters) and appears about once in every 93 million words in written German, the 610,218th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Dreiteilen is a German verb meaning “to split into three, to trisect” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Dreiteilen is a different word: “gerund of dreiteilen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “etwas, jemanden in drei Teile, Stücke teilen, aufspalten, zerlegen”.
What does dreiteilen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to split into three, to trisect
noun
- 1
neutergerund of dreiteilen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. etwas, jemanden in drei Teile, Stücke teilen, aufspalten, zerlegen
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 dreiteilen
- dreiteilt present singular third-person
- dreiteilte past
- gedreiteilt participle past
- haben auxiliary
- dreiteilend participle present
- dreiteile first-person indicative present
- dreiteilst indicative present second-person
- dreiteilest second-person singular subjunctive
- dreiteilet plural second-person subjunctive
- dreiteilten first-person indicative plural
- dreiteiltest indicative preterite second-person
- dreiteiltet indicative plural preterite
- dreiteil imperative second-person singular
- habe gedreiteilt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben gedreiteilt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- dreiteil! imperative singular
- dreiteile! imperative singular
- dreiteilt! imperative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to dreiteilen
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is dreiteilen in German?
dreiteilen appears about once in every 93 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).