unterbuttern
German, verb
unterbuttern is spelled U-N-T-E-R-B-U-T-T-E-R-N (12 letters) and appears about once in every 13 million words in written German, the 195,050th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Unterbuttern is a German verb meaning “to walk over” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Unterbuttern is a different word: “gerund of unterbuttern”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “eine andere Person darin hindern, seine Meinung zu äußern”.
What does unterbuttern mean in English?
verb
- 1
colloquialto walk over
noun
- 1
neutergerund of unterbuttern
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. eine andere Person darin hindern, seine Meinung zu äußern 2. etwas zusätzlich verbrauchen 3. jemandem etwas unterjubeln
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 unterbuttern
- buttert unter present singular third-person
- butterte unter past
- untergebuttert participle past
- haben auxiliary
- unterbutternd participle present
- unterzubuttern infinitive infinitive-zu
- buttre unter first-person indicative present
- buttere unter first-person indicative present
- butter unter first-person indicative present
- buttern unter first-person indicative plural
- butterst unter indicative present second-person
- butterest unter second-person singular subjunctive
- buttrest unter second-person singular subjunctive
- butteret unter plural second-person subjunctive
- buttret unter plural second-person subjunctive
- butterten unter first-person indicative plural
- buttertest unter indicative preterite second-person
- buttertet unter indicative plural preterite
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is unterbuttern in German?
unterbuttern appears about once in every 13 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).