barbieren
German, verb
barbieren is spelled B-A-R-B-I-E-R-E-N (9 letters) and appears about once in every 36 million words in written German, the 357,274th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Barbieren is a German verb meaning “to cut (trim, barber) the beard, to shave” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Barbieren is a different word: “gerund of barbieren”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “die Barthaare entfernen, rasieren”.
What does barbieren mean in English?
verb
- 1
archaicto cut (trim, barber) the beard, to shave
noun
- 1
neutergerund of barbieren
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. die Barthaare entfernen, rasieren
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 barbieren
- barbiert present singular third-person
- barbierte past
- haben auxiliary
- barbierend participle present
- barbiere first-person indicative present
- barbierst indicative present second-person
- barbierest second-person singular subjunctive
- barbieret plural second-person subjunctive
- barbierten first-person indicative plural
- barbiertest indicative preterite second-person
- barbiertet indicative plural preterite
- barbier imperative second-person singular
- habe barbiert first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben barbiert first-person indicative multiword-construction
- barbier! imperative singular
- barbiere! imperative singular
- barbiert! imperative plural
- barbiert haben active infinitive perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is barbieren in German?
barbieren appears about once in every 36 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).