umzäunen
German, verb
umzäunen is spelled U-M-Z-Ä-U-N-E-N (8 letters) and appears about once in every 23 million words in written German, the 278,604th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Umzäunen is a German verb meaning “to fence in, enclose” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Umzäunen is a different word: “gerund of umzäunen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “etwas mit einem Zaun umgeben/umgrenzen”.
What does umzäunen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to fence in, enclose
noun
- 1
neutergerund of umzäunen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. etwas mit einem Zaun umgeben/umgrenzen
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 umzäunen
- umzäunt present singular third-person
- umzäunte past
- haben auxiliary
- umzäunend participle present
- umzäune first-person indicative present
- umzäunst indicative present second-person
- umzäunest second-person singular subjunctive
- umzäunet plural second-person subjunctive
- umzäunten first-person indicative plural
- umzäuntest indicative preterite second-person
- umzäuntet indicative plural preterite
- umzäun imperative second-person singular
- habe umzäunt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben umzäunt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- umzäun! imperative singular
- umzäune! imperative singular
- umzäunt! imperative plural
- umzäunt haben active infinitive perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is umzäunen in German?
umzäunen appears about once in every 23 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).