determinieren
German, verb
determinieren is spelled D-E-T-E-R-M-I-N-I-E-R-E-N (13 letters) and appears about once in every 19 million words in written German, the 247,831st most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Determinieren is a German verb meaning “to determine (to set the boundaries or limits of)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Determinieren is a different word: “gerund of determinieren”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “etwas in seinen Grenzen festlegen”.
What does determinieren mean in English?
verb
- 1
to determine (to set the boundaries or limits of)
Der Gesetzgeber hat die Pflicht, Gesetze hinreichend zu determinieren.
- 2
to determine, to predetermine (to determine in advance)
Die genetische Prädisposition ist durch die in der DNA kodierten Gene eines Menschen determiniert.
noun
- 1
neutergerund of determinieren
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. etwas in seinen Grenzen festlegen 2. etwas bestimmen, entscheiden
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 determinieren
- determiniert present singular third-person
- determinierte past
- haben auxiliary
- determinierend participle present
- determiniere first-person indicative present
- determinierst indicative present second-person
- determinierest second-person singular subjunctive
- determinieret plural second-person subjunctive
- determinierten first-person indicative plural
- determiniertest indicative preterite second-person
- determiniertet indicative plural preterite
- determinier imperative second-person singular
- habe determiniert first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben determiniert first-person indicative multiword-construction
- determinier! imperative singular
- determiniere! imperative singular
- determiniert! imperative plural
- determiniert haben active infinitive perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is determinieren in German?
determinieren appears about once in every 19 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).