zernagen
German, verb
zernagen is spelled Z-E-R-N-A-G-E-N (8 letters) and appears about once in every 65 million words in written German, the 495,385th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Zernagen is a German verb meaning “to chew to pieces” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Zernagen is a different word: “gerund of zernagen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “durch Nagen zerstören”.
What does zernagen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to chew to pieces
noun
- 1
neutergerund of zernagen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. durch Nagen zerstören
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 zernagen
- zernagt present singular third-person
- zernagte past
- haben auxiliary
- zernagend participle present
- zernage first-person indicative present
- zernagst indicative present second-person
- zernagest second-person singular subjunctive
- zernaget plural second-person subjunctive
- zernagten first-person indicative plural
- zernagtest indicative preterite second-person
- zernagtet indicative plural preterite
- zernag imperative second-person singular
- habe zernagt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben zernagt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- zernage! imperative singular
- zernagt! imperative plural
- zernagt haben active infinitive perfect
- zernagt werden processual-passive infinitive present
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is zernagen in German?
zernagen appears about once in every 65 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).