Sabotage
German, noun/zaboˈtaːʒə/
Sabotage is spelled S-A-B-O-T-A-G-E (8 letters) and appears 1.9 times per million words in written German, the 25,090th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Sabotage is a German feminine noun meaning “sabotage” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “im Verborgenen betriebene, planmäßige Beschädigung, Wegnahme oder Zerstörung von Gegenständen und/oder…”.
What does Sabotage mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininesabotage
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. im Verborgenen betriebene, planmäßige Beschädigung, Wegnahme oder Zerstörung von Gegenständen und/oder Bestandteilen einer Infrastruktur, die der Aufrechterhaltung dieser Ordnung dienen
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 Sabotage
- Sabotagen plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce Sabotage?
- Germany /zaboˈtaːʒə/
- /saboˈtaːʒɛ/
- [-b̥o-]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to Sabotage
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Sabotage in German?
Sabotage 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).