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durchzogen

German, adjective

durchzogen is a German adjective meaning “streaky” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first/third-person plural dependent preterite of durchziehen (“to pull through…. With an umlaut, durchzögen is a different word: “first/third-person plural dependent subjunctive II of durchziehen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “nicht optimal, sondern mal gut, mal weniger gut”.

What does durchzogen mean in English?

adjective

  1. 1

    AustriaSwitzerlandstreaky

    durchzogener Speck

  2. 2

    Switzerlandmixed, so-so

    eine durchzogene Bilanz

verb

  1. 1

    first/third-person plural dependent preterite of durchziehen (“to pull through, to traverse”, separable)

verb

  1. 1

    past participle of durchziehen (“to pervade”, inseparable)

verb

  1. 1

    first/third-person plural preterite of durchziehen (“to pervade”, inseparable)

verb

as durchzögen
  1. 1

    first/third-person plural dependent subjunctive II of durchziehen

Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How German dictionaries define it

adjective: 1. nicht optimal, sondern mal gut, mal weniger gut 2. mit Fettgewebe beziehungsweise mit magerem Fleisch durchsetzt

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 durchzogen

  • durchzogener masculine nominative singular
  • am durchzogensten superlative
  • durchzogene feminine nominative singular
  • durchzogenes neuter nominative singular
  • durchzogenen genitive masculine singular
  • durchzogenem dative masculine singular
  • der durchzogene definite includes-article masculine
  • die durchzogene definite feminine includes-article
  • das durchzogene definite includes-article neuter
  • die durchzogenen definite includes-article nominative
  • des durchzogenen definite genitive includes-article
  • der durchzogenen definite feminine genitive
  • dem durchzogenen dative definite includes-article

Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

English words that translate to durchzogen

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is durchzogen in German?

durchzogen appears 1.9 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).