zaudern
German, verb
zaudern is spelled Z-A-U-D-E-R-N (7 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written German, the 78,979th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Zaudern is a German verb meaning “to hesitate; dilly-dally” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Zaudern is a different word: “gerund of zaudern”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “unentschlossen sein, zögern”.
What does zaudern mean in English?
verb
- 1
to hesitate; dilly-dally
noun
- 1
neutergerund of zaudern
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. unentschlossen sein, zögern
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 zaudern
- zaudert present singular third-person
- zauderte past
- gezaudert participle past
- haben auxiliary
- zaudernd participle present
- zaudre first-person indicative present
- zaudere first-person indicative present
- zauder first-person indicative present
- zauderst indicative present second-person
- zauderest second-person singular subjunctive
- zaudrest second-person singular subjunctive
- zauderet plural second-person subjunctive
- zaudret plural second-person subjunctive
- zauderten first-person indicative plural
- zaudertest indicative preterite second-person
- zaudertet indicative plural preterite
- zaudere! imperative singular
- zaudert! imperative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to zaudern
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is zaudern in German?
zaudern appears about once in every 3 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).