angleichen
German, verb
angleichen is spelled A-N-G-L-E-I-C-H-E-N (10 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written German, the 65,066th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Angleichen is a German verb meaning “to adapt, to adjust” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Angleichen is a different word: “gerund of angleichen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “etwas aktiv so verändern, dass es etwas anderem ähnlicher wird”.
What does angleichen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to adapt, to adjust
noun
- 1
neutergerund of angleichen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. etwas aktiv so verändern, dass es etwas anderem ähnlicher wird 2. sich so verändern, dass es zu etwas anderem passt, diesem ähnelt
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 angleichen
- gleicht an present singular third-person
- glich an past
- angeglichen participle past
- haben auxiliary
- 1 strong
- angleichend participle present
- anzugleichen infinitive infinitive-zu
- gleiche an first-person indicative present
- gleichen an first-person indicative plural
- gleichst an indicative present second-person
- gleichest an second-person singular subjunctive
- gleichet an plural second-person subjunctive
- glichen an first-person indicative plural
- gliche an first-person formal rare
- glichst an indicative preterite second-person
- glicht an indicative plural preterite
- glichest an formal rare second-person
- glichet an formal plural rare
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to angleichen
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is angleichen in German?
angleichen 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).