verstreuen
German, verb
verstreuen is spelled V-E-R-S-T-R-E-U-E-N (10 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written German, the 94,067th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Verstreuen is a German verb meaning “to scatter” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Verstreuen is a different word: “scattering”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “über eine Fläche verteilen”.
What does verstreuen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to scatter
- 2
to disperse
noun
- 1
neuterscattering
- 2
neuterdispersal
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. über eine Fläche verteilen 2. so in einem Raum verteilen, dass Unordnung entsteht 3. so über ein Gebiet verteilen, dass die Personen nicht mehr nahe beieinander stehen
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 verstreuen
- Verstreuens genitive
- verstreut present singular third-person
- verstreute past
- haben auxiliary
- verstreuend participle present
- verstreue first-person indicative present
- verstreust indicative present second-person
- verstreuest second-person singular subjunctive
- verstreuet plural second-person subjunctive
- verstreuten first-person indicative plural
- verstreutest indicative preterite second-person
- verstreutet indicative plural preterite
- verstreu imperative second-person singular
- verstreu! imperative singular
- verstreue! imperative singular
- verstreut! imperative plural
- verstreut haben active infinitive perfect
- verstreut 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 verstreuen
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is verstreuen in German?
verstreuen appears about once in every 4 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).