zufügen
German, verb
zufügen is spelled Z-U-F-Ü-G-E-N (7 letters) and appears 2.3 times per million words in written German, the 21,930th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Zufügen is a German verb meaning “to cause (grief, pain); to inflict (damage)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Zufügen is a different word: “gerund of zufügen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “hinzutun”.
What does zufügen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to cause (grief, pain); to inflict (damage)
- 2
to add
- 3
to enclose
noun
- 1
neutergerund of zufügen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. hinzutun 2. (jemandem etwas) antun
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 zufügen
- fügt zu present singular third-person
- fügte zu past
- zugefügt participle past
- haben auxiliary
- sein auxiliary
- haben or sein auxiliary
- zufügend participle present
- zuzufügen infinitive infinitive-zu
- füge zu first-person indicative present
- fügen zu first-person indicative plural
- fügst zu indicative present second-person
- fügest zu second-person singular subjunctive
- füget zu plural second-person subjunctive
- fügten zu first-person indicative plural
- fügtest zu indicative preterite second-person
- fügtet zu indicative plural preterite
- füg zu! imperative singular
- füge zu! imperative singular
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to zufügen
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is zufügen in German?
zufügen appears 2.3 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).