diffundieren
German, verb
diffundieren is spelled D-I-F-F-U-N-D-I-E-R-E-N (12 letters) and appears about once in every 9 million words in written German, the 154,802nd most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Diffundieren is a German verb meaning “to diffuse” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Diffundieren is a different word: “gerund of diffundieren”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “ineinander eindringen, sich vermischen, in etwas anderes eindringen, sich mit etwas anderem vermischen”.
What does diffundieren mean in English?
verb
- 1
to diffuse
noun
- 1
neutergerund of diffundieren
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. ineinander eindringen, sich vermischen, in etwas anderes eindringen, sich mit etwas anderem vermischen 2. zerstreuen
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 diffundieren
- diffundiert present singular third-person
- diffundierte past
- haben auxiliary
- sein auxiliary
- haben or sein auxiliary
- diffundierend participle present
- diffundiere first-person indicative present
- diffundierst indicative present second-person
- diffundierest second-person singular subjunctive
- diffundieret plural second-person subjunctive
- diffundierten first-person indicative plural
- diffundiertest indicative preterite second-person
- diffundiertet indicative plural preterite
- diffundier imperative second-person singular
- diffundiere! imperative singular
- diffundier! imperative singular
- diffundiert! imperative plural
- diffundiert haben auxiliary active infinitive
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to diffundieren
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is diffundieren in German?
diffundieren appears about once in every 9 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).