durchsuchen
German, verb
durchsuchen is spelled D-U-R-C-H-S-U-C-H-E-N (11 letters) and appears 4.5 times per million words in written German, the 13,339th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Durchsuchen is a German verb meaning “to search” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Durchsuchen is a different word: “gerund of durchsuchen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “innerhalb eines bestimmten Bereiches gründlich suchen”.
What does durchsuchen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to search
noun
- 1
neutergerund of durchsuchen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. innerhalb eines bestimmten Bereiches gründlich suchen
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 durchsuchen
- durchsucht present singular third-person
- durchsuchte past
- haben auxiliary
- durchsuchend participle present
- durchsuche first-person indicative present
- durchsuchst indicative present second-person
- durchsuchest second-person singular subjunctive
- durchsuchet plural second-person subjunctive
- durchsuchten first-person indicative plural
- durchsuchtest indicative preterite second-person
- durchsuchtet indicative plural preterite
- durchsuch imperative second-person singular
- habe durchsucht first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben durchsucht first-person indicative multiword-construction
- durchsuche! imperative singular
- durchsucht! imperative plural
- durchsucht haben active infinitive perfect
- durchsucht werden processual-passive infinitive present
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to durchsuchen
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is durchsuchen in German?
durchsuchen appears 4.5 times per million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).