zwangsversteigern
German, verb
zwangsversteigern is spelled Z-W-A-N-G-S-V-E-R-S-T-E-I-G-E-R-N (17 letters) and appears about once in every 87 million words in written German, the 586,900th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Zwangsversteigern is a German verb meaning “to auction off forcibly (in order to repay creditors)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Zwangsversteigern is a different word: “gerund of zwangsversteigern”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “zwangsweise versteigern”.
What does zwangsversteigern mean in English?
verb
- 1
to auction off forcibly (in order to repay creditors)
noun
- 1
neutergerund of zwangsversteigern
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. zwangsweise versteigern
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 zwangsversteigern
- zwangsversteigert present singular third-person
- zwangsversteigerte past
- haben auxiliary
- zwangsversteigernd participle present
- zwangsversteigre first-person indicative present
- zwangsversteigere first-person indicative present
- zwangsversteiger first-person indicative present
- zwangsversteigerst indicative present second-person
- zwangsversteigerest second-person singular subjunctive
- zwangsversteigrest second-person singular subjunctive
- zwangsversteigeret plural second-person subjunctive
- zwangsversteigret plural second-person subjunctive
- zwangsversteigerten first-person indicative plural
- zwangsversteigertest indicative preterite second-person
- zwangsversteigertet indicative plural preterite
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is zwangsversteigern in German?
zwangsversteigern appears about once in every 87 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).