Skip to main content

zurzeit

German, adverb/tsʊrˈtsaɪt/

zurzeit is spelled Z-U-R-Z-E-I-T (7 letters) and appears 18 times per million words in written German, the 4,345th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Zurzeit is a German adverb meaning “currently” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “in diesem Moment, gerade”.

What does zurzeit mean in English?

adverb

  1. 1

    currently

Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How German dictionaries define it

adverb: 1. in diesem Moment, gerade

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 zurzeit

  • zur Zeit alternative
  • zz. abbreviation
  • zzt. abbreviation

Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce zurzeit?

  • /tsʊrˈtsaɪt/
  • [t͡sʊʁˈt͡saɪ̯t]

Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to zurzeit

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is zurzeit in German?

zurzeit appears 18 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).

What to look up after zurzeit