überkreuzen
German, verb
überkreuzen is spelled Ü-B-E-R-K-R-E-U-Z-E-N (11 letters) and appears about once in every 9 million words in written German, the 161,302nd most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Überkreuzen is a German verb meaning “to intersect” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Überkreuzen is a different word: “gerund of überkreuzen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “überschneiden zweier Linien in einem Punkt”.
What does überkreuzen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to intersect
noun
- 1
neutergerund of überkreuzen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. überschneiden zweier Linien in einem Punkt
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 überkreuzen
- überkreuzt present singular third-person
- überkreuzte past
- haben auxiliary
- überkreuzend participle present
- überkreuze first-person indicative present
- überkreuzest second-person singular subjunctive
- überkreuzet plural second-person subjunctive
- überkreuzten first-person indicative plural
- überkreuztest indicative preterite second-person
- überkreuztet indicative plural preterite
- überkreuz imperative second-person singular
- habe überkreuzt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben überkreuzt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- überkreuz! imperative singular
- überkreuze! imperative singular
- überkreuzt! imperative plural
- überkreuzt haben active infinitive perfect
- überkreuzt werden processual-passive infinitive present
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is überkreuzen in German?
überkreuzen 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).