schrotten
German, verb
schrotten is spelled S-C-H-R-O-T-T-E-N (9 letters) and appears about once in every 11 million words in written German, the 177,389th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Schrotten is a German verb meaning “to wreck, to make into scrap” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Schrotten is a different word: “dative plural of Schrott”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “etwas zu Schrott machen, zerstören”.
What does schrotten mean in English?
verb
- 1
to wreck, to make into scrap
noun
- 1
masculinedative plural of Schrott
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. etwas zu Schrott machen, zerstören
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 schrotten
- schrottet present singular third-person
- schrottete past
- geschrottet participle past
- haben auxiliary
- schrottend participle present
- schrotte first-person indicative present
- schrottest indicative present second-person
- schrotteten first-person indicative plural
- schrottetest indicative preterite second-person
- schrottetet indicative plural preterite
- schrott imperative second-person singular
- habe geschrottet first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben geschrottet first-person indicative multiword-construction
- schrotte! imperative singular
- schrottet! imperative plural
- geschrottet haben active infinitive perfect
- geschrottet werden processual-passive infinitive present
- geschrottet worden sein processual-passive infinitive perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is schrotten in German?
schrotten appears about once in every 11 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).