adaptieren
German, verb
adaptieren is spelled A-D-A-P-T-I-E-R-E-N (10 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written German, the 60,441st most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Adaptieren is a German verb meaning “to adapt” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Adaptieren is a different word: “gerund of adaptieren”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “etwas an andere Gegebenheiten anpassen”.
What does adaptieren mean in English?
verb
- 1
to adapt
noun
- 1
neutergerund of adaptieren
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. etwas an andere Gegebenheiten anpassen 2. sich an wechselnde Lichtverhältnisse anpassen 3. eine Wohnung oder Räume für einen bestimmten Zweck herrichten
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 adaptieren
- adaptiert present singular third-person
- adaptierte past
- haben auxiliary
- adaptierend participle present
- adaptiere first-person indicative present
- adaptierst indicative present second-person
- adaptierest second-person singular subjunctive
- adaptieret plural second-person subjunctive
- adaptierten first-person indicative plural
- adaptiertest indicative preterite second-person
- adaptiertet indicative plural preterite
- adaptier imperative second-person singular
- habe adaptiert first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben adaptiert first-person indicative multiword-construction
- adaptier! imperative singular
- adaptiere! imperative singular
- adaptiert! imperative plural
- adaptiert haben active infinitive perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is adaptieren in German?
adaptieren appears about once in every 2 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).