zersprengen
German, verb
zersprengen is spelled Z-E-R-S-P-R-E-N-G-E-N (11 letters) and appears about once in every 14 million words in written German, the 211,221st most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Zersprengen is a German verb meaning “to scatter, disperse” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Zersprengen is a different word: “gerund of zersprengen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “mit einer Explosion (Sprengung) zerstören”.
What does zersprengen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to scatter, disperse
noun
- 1
neutergerund of zersprengen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. mit einer Explosion (Sprengung) zerstören 2. voneinander trennen
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 zersprengen
- zersprengt present singular third-person
- zersprengte past
- haben auxiliary
- zersprengend participle present
- zersprenge first-person indicative present
- zersprengst indicative present second-person
- zersprengest second-person singular subjunctive
- zersprenget plural second-person subjunctive
- zersprengten first-person indicative plural
- zersprengtest indicative preterite second-person
- zersprengtet indicative plural preterite
- zerspreng imperative second-person singular
- habe zersprengt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben zersprengt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- zerspreng! imperative singular
- zersprenge! imperative singular
- zersprengt! imperative plural
- zersprengt haben active infinitive perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is zersprengen in German?
zersprengen appears about once in every 14 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).