Antrieb
German, noun
Antrieb is spelled A-N-T-R-I-E-B (7 letters) and appears 9.8 times per million words in written German, the 7,170th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Antrieb is a German masculine noun meaning “motive, incentive, motivation, drive” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). In lower case, antrieb is a different word: “first/third-person singular dependent preterite of antreiben”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “technische Vorrichtung, die etwas treibt, die etwas in Bewegung versetzt”.
What does Antrieb mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinemotive, incentive, motivation, drive
- 2
masculinedrive (device for moving a machine, vehicle, etc)
- 3
masculinepropulsion
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular dependent preterite of antreiben
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. technische Vorrichtung, die etwas treibt, die etwas in Bewegung versetzt 2. innere Motivation etwas zu tun; der Grund für eine Handlung
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 Antrieb
- Antriebes genitive
- Antriebs genitive
- Antriebe plural
- Antrieben dative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to Antrieb
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Antrieb in German?
Antrieb appears 9.8 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).