zerspalten
German, verb
zerspalten is spelled Z-E-R-S-P-A-L-T-E-N (10 letters) and appears about once in every 35 million words in written German, the 348,070th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Zerspalten is a German verb meaning “to cleave, to split in two” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Zerspalten is a different word: “gerund of zerspalten”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “zur Gänze zerlegen”.
What does zerspalten mean in English?
verb
- 1
to cleave, to split in two
noun
- 1
neutergerund of zerspalten
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. zur Gänze zerlegen
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 zerspalten
- zerspaltet present singular third-person
- zerspaltete past
- haben auxiliary
- zerspaltend participle present
- zerspalte first-person indicative present
- zerspaltest indicative present second-person
- zerspalteten first-person indicative plural
- zerspaltetest indicative preterite second-person
- zerspaltetet indicative plural preterite
- zerspalt imperative second-person singular
- habe zerspaltet first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben zerspaltet first-person indicative multiword-construction
- zerspalt! imperative singular
- zerspalte! imperative singular
- zerspaltet! imperative plural
- zerspaltener positive nominative strong
- zerspaltner positive nominative strong
- zerspaltene positive nominative strong
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to zerspalten
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is zerspalten in German?
zerspalten appears about once in every 35 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).