diff --git a/meilisearch-types/Cargo.toml b/meilisearch-types/Cargo.toml
index 73306c4dc..cb4937e57 100644
--- a/meilisearch-types/Cargo.toml
+++ b/meilisearch-types/Cargo.toml
@@ -66,3 +66,5 @@ khmer = ["milli/khmer"]
 vietnamese = ["milli/vietnamese"]
 # force swedish character recomposition
 swedish-recomposition = ["milli/swedish-recomposition"]
+# force german character recomposition
+german = ["milli/german"]
diff --git a/meilisearch/Cargo.toml b/meilisearch/Cargo.toml
index e614ecc6a..2a16e1017 100644
--- a/meilisearch/Cargo.toml
+++ b/meilisearch/Cargo.toml
@@ -153,6 +153,7 @@ greek = ["meilisearch-types/greek"]
 khmer = ["meilisearch-types/khmer"]
 vietnamese = ["meilisearch-types/vietnamese"]
 swedish-recomposition = ["meilisearch-types/swedish-recomposition"]
+german = ["meilisearch-types/german"]
 
 [package.metadata.mini-dashboard]
 assets-url = "https://github.com/meilisearch/mini-dashboard/releases/download/v0.2.14/build.zip"
diff --git a/milli/Cargo.toml b/milli/Cargo.toml
index e0a85ea8f..8c77f338c 100644
--- a/milli/Cargo.toml
+++ b/milli/Cargo.toml
@@ -107,6 +107,7 @@ all-tokenizations = [
     "charabia/khmer",
     "charabia/vietnamese",
     "charabia/swedish-recomposition",
+    "charabia/german-segmentation",
 ]
 
 # Use POSIX semaphores instead of SysV semaphores in LMDB
@@ -139,6 +140,9 @@ khmer = ["charabia/khmer"]
 # allow vietnamese specialized tokenization
 vietnamese = ["charabia/vietnamese"]
 
+# allow german specialized tokenization
+german = ["charabia/german-segmentation"]
+
 # force swedish character recomposition
 swedish-recomposition = ["charabia/swedish-recomposition"]