instrumentalisieren
German, verb
instrumentalisieren is a German verb meaning “to instrumentalize, to exploit” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Instrumentalisieren is a different word: “gerund of instrumentalisieren”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “als Instrument benutzen, missbrauchen”.
What does instrumentalisieren mean in English?
verb
- 1
to instrumentalize, to exploit
noun
- 1
neutergerund of instrumentalisieren
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. als Instrument benutzen, missbrauchen
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 instrumentalisieren
- instrumentalisiert present singular third-person
- instrumentalisierte past
- haben auxiliary
- instrumentalisierend participle present
- instrumentalisiere first-person indicative present
- instrumentalisierst indicative present second-person
- instrumentalisierest second-person singular subjunctive
- instrumentalisieret plural second-person subjunctive
- instrumentalisierten first-person indicative plural
- instrumentalisiertest indicative preterite second-person
- instrumentalisiertet indicative plural preterite
- instrumentalisier imperative second-person singular
- habe instrumentalisiert first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben instrumentalisiert first-person indicative multiword-construction
- instrumentalisiere! imperative singular
- instrumentalisier! imperative singular
- instrumentalisiert! imperative plural
- instrumentalisiert haben active infinitive perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is instrumentalisieren in German?
instrumentalisieren appears 1.0 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).