zerzausen
German, verb
zerzausen is spelled Z-E-R-Z-A-U-S-E-N (9 letters) and appears about once in every 52 million words in written German, the 440,316th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Zerzausen is a German verb meaning “to ruffle” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Zerzausen is a different word: “gerund of zerzausen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “hin- und herbewegen, bis sichtbare Unordnung entsteht”.
What does zerzausen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to ruffle
noun
- 1
neutergerund of zerzausen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. hin- und herbewegen, bis sichtbare Unordnung entsteht
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 zerzausen
- zerzaust present singular third-person
- zerzauste past
- haben auxiliary
- zerzausend participle present
- zerzause first-person indicative present
- zerzausest second-person singular subjunctive
- zerzauset plural second-person subjunctive
- zerzausten first-person indicative plural
- zerzaustest indicative preterite second-person
- zerzaustet indicative plural preterite
- zerzaus imperative second-person singular
- habe zerzaust first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben zerzaust first-person indicative multiword-construction
- zerzaus! imperative singular
- zerzause! imperative singular
- zerzaust! imperative plural
- zerzaust haben active infinitive perfect
- zerzaust werden processual-passive infinitive present
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to zerzausen
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is zerzausen in German?
zerzausen appears about once in every 52 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).