zerquetschen
German, verb
zerquetschen is spelled Z-E-R-Q-U-E-T-S-C-H-E-N (12 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written German, the 71,199th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Zerquetschen is a German verb meaning “to crush” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Zerquetschen is a different word: “gerund of zerquetschen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “etwas oder jemanden durch große Krafteinwirkung zerdrücken”.
What does zerquetschen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to crush
noun
- 1
neutergerund of zerquetschen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. etwas oder jemanden durch große Krafteinwirkung zerdrücken
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 zerquetschen
- zerquetscht present singular third-person
- zerquetschte past
- haben auxiliary
- zerquetschend participle present
- zerquetsche first-person indicative present
- zerquetschst indicative present second-person
- zerquetschest second-person singular subjunctive
- zerquetschet plural second-person subjunctive
- zerquetschten first-person indicative plural
- zerquetschtest indicative preterite second-person
- zerquetschtet indicative plural preterite
- zerquetsch imperative second-person singular
- habe zerquetscht first-person indicative multiword-construction
- zerquetsch! imperative singular
- zerquetsche! imperative singular
- zerquetscht! imperative plural
- zerquetscht haben active infinitive perfect
- zerquetscht 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 zerquetschen
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is zerquetschen in German?
zerquetschen appears about once in every 2 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).