unterstreichen
German, verb
unterstreichen is spelled U-N-T-E-R-S-T-R-E-I-C-H-E-N (14 letters) and appears 3.2 times per million words in written German, the 16,945th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Unterstreichen is a German verb meaning “to underscore, to underline” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Unterstreichen is a different word: “gerund of unterstreichen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “eine Textstelle mit einer Linie unter der Zeile hervorheben”.
What does unterstreichen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to underscore, to underline
noun
- 1
neutergerund of unterstreichen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. eine Textstelle mit einer Linie unter der Zeile hervorheben 2. einen Sachverhalt (in einer Rede, Diskussion, oder Ähnlichem) besonders hervorheben
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 unterstreichen
- unterstreicht present singular third-person
- unterstrich past
- unterstrichen participle past
- haben auxiliary
- 1 strong
- unterstreichend participle present
- unterstreiche first-person indicative present
- unterstreichst indicative present second-person
- unterstreichest second-person singular subjunctive
- unterstreichet plural second-person subjunctive
- unterstriche first-person formal rare
- unterstrichst indicative preterite second-person
- unterstricht indicative plural preterite
- unterstrichest formal rare second-person
- unterstrichet formal plural rare
- unterstreich imperative second-person singular
- unterstreich! imperative singular
- unterstreiche! imperative singular
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to unterstreichen
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is unterstreichen in German?
unterstreichen appears 3.2 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).