zeugen
German, verb
zeugen is spelled Z-E-U-G-E-N (6 letters) and appears 36 times per million words in written German, the 2,298th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Zeugen is a German verb meaning “to beget, father, procreate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Zeugen is a different word: “genitive singular of Zeuge”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “Zeugnis ablegen, als Zeuge aussagen”.
What does zeugen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to beget, father, procreate
- 2
to testify, bear witness, declare
noun
- 1
genitive singular of Zeuge
- 2
accusative singular of Zeuge
- 3
plural of Zeuge
noun
- 1
neutergerund of zeugen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Zeugnis ablegen, als Zeuge aussagen 2. bezeugen, zeigen, auf etwas schließen lassen
verb: 1. ein Kind durch Geschlechtsverkehr mit einer Frau erzeugen 2. etwas (Abstraktes) (geistig) hervorbringen
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 zeugen
- zeugt present singular third-person
- zeugte past
- gezeugt participle past
- haben auxiliary
- zeugend participle present
- zeuge first-person indicative present
- zeugst indicative present second-person
- zeugest second-person singular subjunctive
- zeuget plural second-person subjunctive
- zeugten first-person indicative plural
- zeugtest indicative preterite second-person
- zeugtet indicative plural preterite
- zeug imperative second-person singular
- habe gezeugt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben gezeugt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- zeuge! imperative singular
- zeug! imperative singular
- zeugt! imperative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to zeugen
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is zeugen in German?
zeugen appears 36 times per million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).