unterdrücken
German, verb
unterdrücken is spelled U-N-T-E-R-D-R-Ü-C-K-E-N (12 letters) and appears 5.4 times per million words in written German, the 11,619th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Unterdrücken is a German verb meaning “to suppress, to oppress” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Unterdrücken is a different word: “gerund of unterdrücken”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “jemanden (oft mit Gewalt) daran hindern, frei zu entscheiden und sich frei zu entfalten”.
What does unterdrücken mean in English?
verb
- 1
to suppress, to oppress
seinen Ärger unterdrücken.
- 2
to repress
noun
- 1
neutergerund of unterdrücken
noun
- 1
masculinedative plural of Unterdruck
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. jemanden (oft mit Gewalt) daran hindern, frei zu entscheiden und sich frei zu entfalten 2. durch Selbstbeherrschung unter Kontrolle halten 3. gewaltsam verhindern
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 unterdrücken
- unterdrückt present singular third-person
- unterdrückte past
- haben auxiliary
- unterdrückend participle present
- unterdrücke first-person indicative present
- unterdrückst indicative present second-person
- unterdrückest second-person singular subjunctive
- unterdrücket plural second-person subjunctive
- unterdrückten first-person indicative plural
- unterdrücktest indicative preterite second-person
- unterdrücktet indicative plural preterite
- unterdrück imperative second-person singular
- habe unterdrückt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben unterdrückt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- unterdrücke! imperative singular
- unterdrückt! imperative plural
- unterdrückt haben active infinitive perfect
- unterdrückt werden processual-passive infinitive present
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to unterdrücken
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is unterdrücken in German?
unterdrücken appears 5.4 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).