zuzustellen

Zuzustellen is a German verb that denotes the act of delivering something to a recipient, especially official documents, notices, or mail. It is formed from the verb zustellen with the infinitive marker zu, and it is commonly used in formal or administrative contexts. In main clauses the action is usually expressed with zustellen (e.g., Die Post wird dem Empfänger zugestellt). In subordinate clauses or in constructions with zu, the infinitive takes the form zuzustellen (e.g., Es ist vorgesehen, die Unterlagen dem Empfänger zuzustellen).

In legal and bureaucratic language, zustellen refers to the service or handover of documents to a party. The act is often described as “Zustellung” and has procedural significance, since it establishes that a notice, a court document, or a deadline has been communicated to the recipient. The recipient is typically in the dative case: dem Empfänger, der Partei, dem Betroffenen, etc. The verb is commonly used with objects such as Unterlagen, Rechnungen, Mahnungen, oder gerichtliche Dokumente.

Common conjugation and forms include: zustellen (infinitive, base verb), stellt zu (present), stellte zu (simple past), zugestellt (past participle). The infinitive with zu is used as zuzustellen in subordinate clauses. Overall, zuzustellen is a specialized term largely confined to formal writing and legal procedures, while zustellen appears more frequently in everyday language in comparable contexts. See also Zustellung (the act of service) and Zusteller (the courier or mail carrier).