trennen
German, verb
trennen is spelled T-R-E-N-N-E-N (7 letters) and appears 21 times per million words in written German, the 3,720th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Trennen is a German verb meaning “to separate, sever, part, disunite, uncouple, segregate, unjoin, disjoin” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Trennen is a different word: “gerund of trennen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “Personen oder Sachen auseinanderbringen”.
What does trennen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to separate, sever, part, disunite, uncouple, segregate, unjoin, disjoin
- 2
to sunder
- 3
to unlink, delink, disconnect, detach
- 4
to isolate
- 5
to separate, to go apart, to secede, to break off, to break up; to part ways
noun
- 1
neutergerund of trennen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Personen oder Sachen auseinanderbringen 2. eine Sache in ihre Bestandteile zerlegen 3. eine Sache von einer anderen Sache abscheiden 4. etwas auseinanderhalten und genau unterscheiden
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 trennen
- trennt present singular third-person
- trennte past
- getrennt participle past
- haben auxiliary
- trennend participle present
- trenne first-person indicative present
- trennst indicative present second-person
- trennest second-person singular subjunctive
- trennet plural second-person subjunctive
- trennten first-person indicative plural
- trenntest indicative preterite second-person
- trenntet indicative plural preterite
- trenn imperative second-person singular
- habe getrennt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben getrennt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- trenne! imperative singular
- trennt! imperative plural
- getrennt haben active infinitive perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to trennen
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is trennen in German?
trennen appears 21 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).