dramatisieren
German, verb
dramatisieren is spelled D-R-A-M-A-T-I-S-I-E-R-E-N (13 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written German, the 80,178th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Dramatisieren is a German verb meaning “to dramatize” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Dramatisieren is a different word: “gerund of dramatisieren”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “etwas dramatischer erscheinen lassen, als es tatsächlich ist”.
What does dramatisieren mean in English?
verb
- 1
to dramatize
noun
- 1
neutergerund of dramatisieren
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. etwas dramatischer erscheinen lassen, als es tatsächlich ist 2. einen Stoff in Form eines Dramas literarisch verarbeiten
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 dramatisieren
- dramatisiert present singular third-person
- dramatisierte past
- haben auxiliary
- dramatisierend participle present
- dramatisiere first-person indicative present
- dramatisierst indicative present second-person
- dramatisierest second-person singular subjunctive
- dramatisieret plural second-person subjunctive
- dramatisierten first-person indicative plural
- dramatisiertest indicative preterite second-person
- dramatisiertet indicative plural preterite
- dramatisier imperative second-person singular
- habe dramatisiert first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben dramatisiert first-person indicative multiword-construction
- dramatisiere! imperative singular
- dramatisier! imperative singular
- dramatisiert! imperative plural
- dramatisiert haben active infinitive perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to dramatisieren
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is dramatisieren in German?
dramatisieren appears about once in every 3 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).