zersägen
German, verb
zersägen is spelled Z-E-R-S-Ä-G-E-N (8 letters) and appears about once in every 5 million words in written German, the 113,526th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Zersägen is a German verb meaning “to saw up” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Zersägen is a different word: “gerund of zersägen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “etwas mit der Säge in kleine Stücke zerteilen”.
What does zersägen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to saw up
noun
- 1
neutergerund of zersägen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. etwas mit der Säge in kleine Stücke zerteilen
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 zersägen
- zersägt present singular third-person
- zersägte past
- haben auxiliary
- zersägend participle present
- zersäge first-person indicative present
- zersägst indicative present second-person
- zersägest second-person singular subjunctive
- zersäget plural second-person subjunctive
- zersägten first-person indicative plural
- zersägtest indicative preterite second-person
- zersägtet indicative plural preterite
- zersäg imperative second-person singular
- habe zersägt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben zersägt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- zersäg! imperative singular
- zersäge! imperative singular
- zersägt! imperative plural
- zersägt haben active infinitive perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is zersägen in German?
zersägen 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).