zerbröseln
German, verb
zerbröseln is spelled Z-E-R-B-R-Ö-S-E-L-N (10 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written German, the 104,034th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Zerbröseln is a German verb meaning “to crumble, to render into crumbs” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Zerbröseln is a different word: “gerund of zerbröseln”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “etwas zu Bröseln machen”.
What does zerbröseln mean in English?
verb
- 1
to crumble, to render into crumbs
- 2
to crumble, to fall apart, to disintegrate
noun
- 1
neutergerund of zerbröseln
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. etwas zu Bröseln machen 2. zu Bröseln/kleinen Bestandteilen zerfallen
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 zerbröseln
- zerbröselt present singular third-person
- zerbröselte past
- sein auxiliary
- haben auxiliary
- sein or haben auxiliary
- zerbröselnd participle present
- zerbrösle first-person indicative present
- zerbrösele first-person indicative present
- zerbrösel first-person indicative present
- zerbröselst indicative present second-person
- zerbröselest second-person singular subjunctive
- zerbröslest second-person singular subjunctive
- zerbröselet plural second-person subjunctive
- zerbröslet plural second-person subjunctive
- zerbröselten first-person indicative plural
- zerbröseltest indicative preterite second-person
- zerbröseltet indicative plural preterite
- zerbrösele! imperative singular
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is zerbröseln in German?
zerbröseln 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).