zuerkennen
German, verb
zuerkennen is spelled Z-U-E-R-K-E-N-N-E-N (10 letters) and appears about once in every 9 million words in written German, the 163,492nd most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Zuerkennen is a German verb meaning “to assign, to adjudge, to recognize as belonging to, also legally or officially” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Zuerkennen is a different word: “gerund of zuerkennen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “etwas offiziell (durch ein Gericht/Amt) aussprechen/gewähren”.
What does zuerkennen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to assign, to adjudge, to recognize as belonging to, also legally or officially
noun
- 1
neutergerund of zuerkennen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. etwas offiziell (durch ein Gericht/Amt) aussprechen/gewähren 2. davon ausgehen, dass etwas zutrifft
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 zuerkennen
- erkennt zu present singular third-person
- erkannte zu past
- zuerkannt participle past
- erkennte zu past subjunctive
- haben auxiliary
- zuerkennend participle present
- zuzuerkennen infinitive infinitive-zu
- erkenne zu first-person indicative present
- erkennen zu first-person indicative plural
- erkennst zu indicative present second-person
- erkennest zu second-person singular subjunctive
- erkennet zu plural second-person subjunctive
- erkannten zu first-person indicative plural
- erkennten zu first-person formal plural
- erkanntest zu indicative preterite second-person
- erkanntet zu indicative plural preterite
- erkenntest zu formal rare second-person
- erkenntet zu formal plural rare
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is zuerkennen in German?
zuerkennen appears about once in every 9 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).