zerschellen
German, verb
zerschellen is spelled Z-E-R-S-C-H-E-L-L-E-N (11 letters) and appears about once in every 5 million words in written German, the 116,815th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Zerschellen is a German verb meaning “to break into pieces” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Zerschellen is a different word: “gerund of zerschellen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “in kleine Teile zerbrechen”.
What does zerschellen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to break into pieces
noun
- 1
neutergerund of zerschellen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. in kleine Teile zerbrechen
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 zerschellen
- zerschellt present singular third-person
- zerschellte past
- haben auxiliary
- zerschellend participle present
- zerschelle first-person indicative present
- zerschellst indicative present second-person
- zerschellest second-person singular subjunctive
- zerschellet plural second-person subjunctive
- zerschellten first-person indicative plural
- zerschelltest indicative preterite second-person
- zerschelltet indicative plural preterite
- zerschell imperative second-person singular
- habe zerschellt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben zerschellt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- zerschelle! imperative singular
- zerschell! imperative singular
- zerschellt! imperative plural
- sein auxiliary perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to zerschellen
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is zerschellen in German?
zerschellen 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).