splittern
German, verb
splittern is spelled S-P-L-I-T-T-E-R-N (9 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written German, the 64,132nd most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Splittern is a German verb meaning “to shatter” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Splittern is a different word: “dative plural of Splitter”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “in Splitter auseinanderbrechen”.
What does splittern mean in English?
verb
- 1
to shatter
noun
- 1
masculinedative plural of Splitter
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. in Splitter auseinanderbrechen
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 splittern
- splittert present singular third-person
- splitterte past
- gesplittert participle past
- haben auxiliary
- splitternd participle present
- splittre first-person indicative present
- splittere first-person indicative present
- splitter first-person indicative present
- splitterst indicative present second-person
- splitterest second-person singular subjunctive
- splittrest second-person singular subjunctive
- splitteret plural second-person subjunctive
- splittret plural second-person subjunctive
- splitterten first-person indicative plural
- splittertest indicative preterite second-person
- splittertet indicative plural preterite
- splittere! imperative singular
- splittert! imperative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is splittern in German?
splittern appears about once in every 2 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).