verteilen
German, verb
verteilen is spelled V-E-R-T-E-I-L-E-N (9 letters) and appears 17 times per million words in written German, the 4,505th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Verteilen is a German verb meaning “to distribute” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Verteilen is a different word: “gerund of verteilen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “mehreren Personen einen Teil von etwas geben”.
What does verteilen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to distribute
- 2
to spread
- 3
to spread out
noun
- 1
neutergerund of verteilen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. mehreren Personen einen Teil von etwas geben 2. etwas in gleicher Menge, Ausmaß an verschiedene Stellen bringen 3. mehr Fläche, Raum einnehmen, in Anspruch nehmen; sich ausbreiten
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 verteilen
- verteilt present singular third-person
- verteilte past
- haben auxiliary
- verteilend participle present
- verteile first-person indicative present
- verteilst indicative present second-person
- verteilest second-person singular subjunctive
- verteilet plural second-person subjunctive
- verteilten first-person indicative plural
- verteiltest indicative preterite second-person
- verteiltet indicative plural preterite
- verteil imperative second-person singular
- habe verteilt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben verteilt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- vertheilen obsolete
- verteile! imperative singular
- verteilt! imperative plural
- verteilt haben transitive active infinitive
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to verteilen
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is verteilen in German?
verteilen appears 17 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).