alimentieren
German, verb
alimentieren is spelled A-L-I-M-E-N-T-I-E-R-E-N (12 letters) and appears about once in every 7 million words in written German, the 140,468th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Alimentieren is a German verb meaning “to support financially” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Alimentieren is a different word: “gerund of alimentieren”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “jemanden mit Geld unterstützen”.
What does alimentieren mean in English?
verb
- 1
to support financially
noun
- 1
neutergerund of alimentieren
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. jemanden mit Geld unterstützen
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 alimentieren
- alimentiert present singular third-person
- alimentierte past
- haben auxiliary
- alimentierend participle present
- alimentiere first-person indicative present
- alimentierst indicative present second-person
- alimentierest second-person singular subjunctive
- alimentieret plural second-person subjunctive
- alimentierten first-person indicative plural
- alimentiertest indicative preterite second-person
- alimentiertet indicative plural preterite
- alimentier imperative second-person singular
- habe alimentiert first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben alimentiert first-person indicative multiword-construction
- alimentiere! imperative singular
- alimentier! imperative singular
- alimentiert! imperative plural
- alimentiert haben active infinitive perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is alimentieren in German?
alimentieren appears about once in every 7 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).