zerteilen
German, verb
zerteilen is spelled Z-E-R-T-E-I-L-E-N (9 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written German, the 75,468th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Zerteilen is a German verb meaning “to divide, split up” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Zerteilen is a different word: “gerund of zerteilen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “in Stücke zerlegen”.
What does zerteilen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to divide, split up
- 2
to disperse, split up
noun
- 1
neutergerund of zerteilen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. in Stücke zerlegen 2. sich auflösen, auseinandergehen
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 zerteilen
- zerteilt present singular third-person
- zerteilte past
- haben auxiliary
- zerteilend participle present
- zerteile first-person indicative present
- zerteilst indicative present second-person
- zerteilest second-person singular subjunctive
- zerteilet plural second-person subjunctive
- zerteilten first-person indicative plural
- zerteiltest indicative preterite second-person
- zerteiltet indicative plural preterite
- zerteil imperative second-person singular
- habe zerteilt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben zerteilt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- zerteil! imperative singular
- zerteile! imperative singular
- zerteilt! imperative plural
- zerteilt haben active infinitive perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to zerteilen
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is zerteilen in German?
zerteilen appears about once in every 3 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).