zerlegen
German, verb
zerlegen is spelled Z-E-R-L-E-G-E-N (8 letters) and appears 2.5 times per million words in written German, the 20,880th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Zerlegen is a German verb meaning “to dismantle, disassemble, decompose” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Zerlegen is a different word: “gerund of zerlegen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “etwas in seine Komponenten aufteilen, in seine Einzelteile auflösen”.
What does zerlegen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to dismantle, disassemble, decompose
- 2
to dismember, dissect
- 3
to analyze/analyse
- 4
informalto get wrecked
noun
- 1
neutergerund of zerlegen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. etwas in seine Komponenten aufteilen, in seine Einzelteile auflösen 2. in Teile schneiden 3. analysieren, einzeln untersuchen
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 zerlegen
- zerlegt present singular third-person
- zerlegte past
- haben auxiliary
- zerlegend participle present
- zerlege first-person indicative present
- zerlegst indicative present second-person
- zerlegest second-person singular subjunctive
- zerleget plural second-person subjunctive
- zerlegten first-person indicative plural
- zerlegtest indicative preterite second-person
- zerlegtet indicative plural preterite
- zerleg imperative second-person singular
- habe zerlegt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben zerlegt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- zerleg! imperative singular
- zerlege! imperative singular
- zerlegt! imperative plural
- zerlegt haben active infinitive perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to zerlegen
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is zerlegen in German?
zerlegen appears 2.5 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).