zerreden
German, verb
zerreden is spelled Z-E-R-R-E-D-E-N (8 letters) and appears about once in every 7 million words in written German, the 142,439th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Zerreden is a German verb meaning “to discuss (a subject) to death” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Zerreden is a different word: “gerund of zerreden”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “über etwas zu viel reden, zu sehr in die Einzelheiten gehen und dadurch die Wirkung zerstören”.
What does zerreden mean in English?
verb
- 1
to discuss (a subject) to death
noun
- 1
neutergerund of zerreden
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. über etwas zu viel reden, zu sehr in die Einzelheiten gehen und dadurch die Wirkung 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 zerreden
- zerredet present singular third-person
- zerredete past
- haben auxiliary
- zerredend participle present
- zerrede first-person indicative present
- zerredest indicative present second-person
- zerredeten first-person indicative plural
- zerredetest indicative preterite second-person
- zerredetet indicative plural preterite
- zerred imperative second-person singular
- habe zerredet first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben zerredet first-person indicative multiword-construction
- zerrede! imperative singular
- zerred! imperative singular
- zerredet! imperative plural
- zerredet haben active infinitive perfect
- zerredet werden processual-passive infinitive present
- zerredet worden sein processual-passive infinitive perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is zerreden in German?
zerreden appears about once in every 7 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).