detonieren
German, verb
detonieren is spelled D-E-T-O-N-I-E-R-E-N (10 letters) and appears about once in every 7 million words in written German, the 134,701st most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Detonieren is a German verb meaning “to detonate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Detonieren is a different word: “gerund of detonieren”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “lautstark explodieren”.
What does detonieren mean in English?
verb
- 1
to detonate
noun
- 1
neutergerund of detonieren
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. lautstark explodieren
verb: 1. unrein (zu hoch oder zu tief) singen oder spielen
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 detonieren
- detoniert present singular third-person
- detonierte past
- sein auxiliary
- detonierend participle present
- detoniere first-person indicative present
- detonierst indicative present second-person
- detonierest second-person singular subjunctive
- detonieret plural second-person subjunctive
- detonierten first-person indicative plural
- detoniertest indicative preterite second-person
- detoniertet indicative plural preterite
- detonier imperative second-person singular
- bin detoniert first-person indicative multiword-construction
- sind detoniert first-person indicative multiword-construction
- detoniere! imperative singular
- detonier! imperative singular
- detoniert! imperative plural
- detoniert sein auxiliary auxiliary verb active
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to detonieren
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is detonieren in German?
detonieren appears about once in every 7 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).