schottern
German, verb
schottern is spelled S-C-H-O-T-T-E-R-N (9 letters) and appears about once in every 9 million words in written German, the 159,136th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Schottern is a German verb meaning “to gravel” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Schottern is a different word: “dative plural of Schotter”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “mit Schotter bedecken, mit Schotter aufschütten”.
What does schottern mean in English?
verb
- 1
to gravel
- 2
to remove ballast from railway tracks to sabotage operations, especially nuclear waste movements.
noun
- 1
masculinedative plural of Schotter
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. mit Schotter bedecken, mit Schotter aufschütten 2. Schotter aus einem Gleisbett entfernen
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 schottern
- schottert present singular third-person
- schotterte past
- geschottert participle past
- haben auxiliary
- schotternd participle present
- schottre first-person indicative present
- schottere first-person indicative present
- schotter first-person indicative present
- schotterst indicative present second-person
- schotterest second-person singular subjunctive
- schottrest second-person singular subjunctive
- schotteret plural second-person subjunctive
- schottret plural second-person subjunctive
- schotterten first-person indicative plural
- schottertest indicative preterite second-person
- schottertet indicative plural preterite
- schotter! imperative singular
- schottere! imperative singular
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to schottern
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is schottern in German?
schottern appears about once in every 9 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).