zerknüllen
German, verb
zerknüllen is spelled Z-E-R-K-N-Ü-L-L-E-N (10 letters) and appears about once in every 54 million words in written German, the 446,287th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Zerknüllen is a German verb meaning “to crumple up” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Zerknüllen is a different word: “gerund of zerknüllen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “etwas in der Hand oder durch falsche Lagerung zerdrücken, zerknittern”.
What does zerknüllen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to crumple up
noun
- 1
neutergerund of zerknüllen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. etwas in der Hand oder durch falsche Lagerung zerdrücken, zerknittern
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 zerknüllen
- zerknüllt present singular third-person
- zerknüllte past
- haben auxiliary
- zerknüllend participle present
- zerknülle first-person indicative present
- zerknüllst indicative present second-person
- zerknüllest second-person singular subjunctive
- zerknüllet plural second-person subjunctive
- zerknüllten first-person indicative plural
- zerknülltest indicative preterite second-person
- zerknülltet indicative plural preterite
- zerknüll imperative second-person singular
- habe zerknüllt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben zerknüllt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- zerknüll! imperative singular
- zerknülle! imperative singular
- zerknüllt! imperative plural
- zerknüllt haben active infinitive perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to zerknüllen
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is zerknüllen in German?
zerknüllen appears about once in every 54 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).