zensieren
German, verb
zensieren is spelled Z-E-N-S-I-E-R-E-N (9 letters) and appears 1.2 times per million words in written German, the 34,584th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Zensieren is a German verb meaning “to censor” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Zensieren is a different word: “gerund of zensieren”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “eine Note zu einer Leistung geben”.
What does zensieren mean in English?
verb
- 1
to censor
- 2
to mark, to grade
noun
- 1
neutergerund of zensieren
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. eine Note zu einer Leistung geben 2. die in den Medien gezeigten Informationen, Bilder oder Meinungen einschränken/zurückhalten
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 zensieren
- zensiert present singular third-person
- zensierte past
- haben auxiliary
- zensierend participle present
- zensiere first-person indicative present
- zensierst indicative present second-person
- zensierest second-person singular subjunctive
- zensieret plural second-person subjunctive
- zensierten first-person indicative plural
- zensiertest indicative preterite second-person
- zensiertet indicative plural preterite
- zensier imperative second-person singular
- habe zensiert first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben zensiert first-person indicative multiword-construction
- zensier! imperative singular
- zensiere! imperative singular
- zensiert! imperative plural
- zensiert haben active infinitive perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to zensieren
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is zensieren in German?
zensieren appears 1.2 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).