zerstreiten
German, verb
zerstreiten is spelled Z-E-R-S-T-R-E-I-T-E-N (11 letters) and appears about once in every 15 million words in written German, the 214,094th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Zerstreiten is a German verb meaning “to fall out with someone” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Zerstreiten is a different word: “gerund of zerstreiten”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “dauerhaft in Streit geraten”.
What does zerstreiten mean in English?
verb
- 1
to fall out with someone
noun
- 1
neutergerund of zerstreiten
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. dauerhaft in Streit geraten
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 zerstreiten
- zerstreitet present singular third-person
- zerstritt past
- zerstritten participle past
- haben auxiliary
- 1 strong
- zerstreitend participle present
- zerstreite first-person indicative present
- zerstreitest indicative present second-person
- zerstritte first-person formal rare
- zerstrittest indicative preterite second-person
- zerstrittst indicative preterite second-person
- zerstrittet indicative plural preterite
- zerstreit imperative second-person singular
- zerstreite! imperative singular
- zerstreitet! imperative plural
- zerstritten haben active infinitive perfect
- zu zerstreiten active extended infinitive
- zerstritten zu haben active extended infinitive
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is zerstreiten in German?
zerstreiten appears about once in every 15 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).