zermalmen
German, verb
zermalmen is spelled Z-E-R-M-A-L-M-E-N (9 letters) and appears about once in every 5 million words in written German, the 105,614th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Zermalmen is a German verb meaning “to crush” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Zermalmen is a different word: “gerund of zermalmen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “etwas zerdrücken, zerquetschen, durch Druck zerstören, zerkleinern”.
What does zermalmen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to crush
noun
- 1
neutergerund of zermalmen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. etwas zerdrücken, zerquetschen, durch Druck zerstören, zerkleinern
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 zermalmen
- zermalmt present singular third-person
- zermalmte past
- haben auxiliary
- zermalmend participle present
- zermalme first-person indicative present
- zermalmst indicative present second-person
- zermalmest second-person singular subjunctive
- zermalmet plural second-person subjunctive
- zermalmten first-person indicative plural
- zermalmtest indicative preterite second-person
- zermalmtet indicative plural preterite
- zermalm imperative second-person singular
- habe zermalmt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben zermalmt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- zermalme! imperative singular
- zermalmt! imperative plural
- zermalmt haben active infinitive perfect
- zermalmt werden processual-passive infinitive present
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to zermalmen
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is zermalmen in German?
zermalmen appears about once in every 5 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).