absichern
German, verb
absichern is spelled A-B-S-I-C-H-E-R-N (9 letters) and appears 2.2 times per million words in written German, the 22,661st most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Absichern is a German verb meaning “to secure, safeguard” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Absichern is a different word: “gerund of absichern”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “jemanden oder etwas vor Gefahren schützen”.
What does absichern mean in English?
verb
- 1
to secure, safeguard
- 2
to hedge
noun
- 1
neutergerund of absichern
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. jemanden oder etwas vor Gefahren schützen 2. einen Ort oder Gegenstand so mit Schutzeinrichtungen versehen, dass davon keine akute Gefahr mehr ausgeht 3. mit Fakten unterlegen 4. dafür geradestehen, dass etwas geschieht
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 absichern
- sichert ab present singular third-person
- sicherte ab past
- abgesichert participle past
- haben auxiliary
- absichernd participle present
- abzusichern infinitive infinitive-zu
- sichre ab first-person indicative present
- sichere ab first-person indicative present
- sicher ab first-person indicative present
- sichern ab first-person indicative plural
- sicherst ab indicative present second-person
- sicherest ab second-person singular subjunctive
- sichrest ab second-person singular subjunctive
- sicheret ab plural second-person subjunctive
- sichret ab plural second-person subjunctive
- sicherten ab first-person indicative plural
- sichertest ab indicative preterite second-person
- sichertet ab indicative plural preterite
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to absichern
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is absichern in German?
absichern appears 2.2 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).