zurückkommen
German, verb
zurückkommen is spelled Z-U-R-Ü-C-K-K-O-M-M-E-N (12 letters) and appears 4.3 times per million words in written German, the 13,799th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Zurückkommen is a German verb meaning “to return (to come back)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Zurückkommen is a different word: “gerund of zurückkommen; return”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “wieder an den Ausgangspunkt kommen”.
What does zurückkommen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to return (to come back)
noun
- 1
neutergerund of zurückkommen; return
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. wieder an den Ausgangspunkt kommen 2. etwas wieder aufgreifen
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 zurückkommen
- kommt zurück present singular third-person
- kam zurück past
- zurückgekommen participle past
- käme zurück past subjunctive
- sein auxiliary
- 4 strong
- zurückkommend participle present
- zurückzukommen infinitive infinitive-zu
- komme zurück first-person indicative present
- kommen zurück first-person indicative plural
- kommst zurück indicative present second-person
- kommest zurück second-person singular subjunctive
- kommet zurück plural second-person subjunctive
- kamen zurück first-person indicative plural
- kämen zurück first-person plural subjunctive
- kamst zurück indicative preterite second-person
- kamt zurück indicative plural preterite
- kämest zurück second-person singular subjunctive
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to zurückkommen
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is zurückkommen in German?
zurückkommen appears 4.3 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).