anfeinden
German, verb
anfeinden is spelled A-N-F-E-I-N-D-E-N (9 letters) and appears about once in every 20 million words in written German, the 257,657th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Anfeinden is a German verb meaning “to antagonize (to make someone into an enemy, broadly by verbal means)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Anfeinden is a different word: “gerund of anfeinden”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “sich jemandem gegenüber feindselig verhalten, jemanden mit Worten bekämpfen”.
What does anfeinden mean in English?
verb
- 1
to antagonize (to make someone into an enemy, broadly by verbal means)
noun
- 1
neutergerund of anfeinden
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. sich jemandem gegenüber feindselig verhalten, jemanden mit Worten bekämpfen
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 anfeinden
- feindet an present singular third-person
- feindete an past
- angefeindet participle past
- haben auxiliary
- anfeindend participle present
- anzufeinden infinitive infinitive-zu
- feinde an first-person indicative present
- feinden an first-person indicative plural
- feindest an indicative present second-person
- feindeten an first-person indicative plural
- feindetest an indicative preterite second-person
- feindetet an indicative plural preterite
- feind an! imperative singular
- feinde an! imperative singular
- feindet an! imperative plural
- angefeindet haben active infinitive perfect
- angefeindet werden processual-passive infinitive present
- angefeindet worden sein processual-passive infinitive perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to anfeinden
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is anfeinden in German?
anfeinden appears about once in every 20 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).