durchsickern
German, verb
durchsickern is spelled D-U-R-C-H-S-I-C-K-E-R-N (12 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written German, the 95,383rd most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Durchsickern is a German verb meaning “to percolate, permeate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Durchsickern is a different word: “gerund of durchsickern”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “langsam durch poröses Material fließen”.
What does durchsickern mean in English?
verb
- 1
to percolate, permeate
- 2
to leak out; to leak (information)
Information durchsickern lassen
noun
- 1
neutergerund of durchsickern
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. langsam durch poröses Material fließen 2. inoffiziell an Außenstehende gelangen
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 durchsickern
- sickert durch present singular third-person
- sickerte durch past
- durchgesickert participle past
- sein auxiliary
- durchsickernd participle present
- durchzusickern infinitive infinitive-zu
- sickre durch first-person indicative present
- sickere durch first-person indicative present
- sicker durch first-person indicative present
- sickern durch first-person indicative plural
- sickerst durch indicative present second-person
- sickerest durch second-person singular subjunctive
- sickrest durch second-person singular subjunctive
- sickeret durch plural second-person subjunctive
- sickret durch plural second-person subjunctive
- sickerten durch first-person indicative plural
- sickertest durch indicative preterite second-person
- sickertet durch indicative plural preterite
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to durchsickern
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is durchsickern in German?
durchsickern appears about once in every 4 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).