diffamieren
German, verb
diffamieren is spelled D-I-F-F-A-M-I-E-R-E-N (11 letters) and appears 1.0 times per million words in written German, the 38,647th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Diffamieren is a German verb meaning “to vilify, to defame (say defamatory things about)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Diffamieren is a different word: “gerund of diffamieren”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “jemanden in seinem Ansehen schädigen, ihn herabsetzen, oder ihn in Verruf bringen”.
What does diffamieren mean in English?
verb
- 1
to vilify, to defame (say defamatory things about)
noun
- 1
neutergerund of diffamieren
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. jemanden in seinem Ansehen schädigen, ihn herabsetzen, oder ihn in Verruf bringen
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 diffamieren
- diffamiert present singular third-person
- diffamierte past
- haben auxiliary
- diffamierend participle present
- diffamiere first-person indicative present
- diffamierst indicative present second-person
- diffamierest second-person singular subjunctive
- diffamieret plural second-person subjunctive
- diffamierten first-person indicative plural
- diffamiertest indicative preterite second-person
- diffamiertet indicative plural preterite
- diffamier imperative second-person singular
- habe diffamiert first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben diffamiert first-person indicative multiword-construction
- diffamier! imperative singular
- diffamiere! imperative singular
- diffamiert! imperative plural
- diffamiert haben active infinitive perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to diffamieren
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is diffamieren in German?
diffamieren appears 1.0 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).