erweitern
German, verb
erweitern is spelled E-R-W-E-I-T-E-R-N (9 letters) and appears 11 times per million words in written German, the 6,291st most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Erweitern is a German verb meaning “to extend, to expand” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Erweitern is a different word: “gerund of erweitern”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “vergrößern, weiten”.
What does erweitern mean in English?
verb
- 1
to extend, to expand
noun
- 1
neutergerund of erweitern
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. vergrößern, weiten 2. einen bestimmten Anteil hinzufügen 3. in einem Bruch Zähler und Nenner mit derselben natürlichen Zahl multiplizieren
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 erweitern
- erweitert present singular third-person
- erweiterte past
- haben auxiliary
- erweiternd participle present
- erweitre first-person indicative present
- erweitere first-person indicative present
- erweiter first-person indicative present
- erweiterst indicative present second-person
- erweiterest second-person singular subjunctive
- erweitrest second-person singular subjunctive
- erweiteret plural second-person subjunctive
- erweitret plural second-person subjunctive
- erweiterten first-person indicative plural
- erweitertest indicative preterite second-person
- erweitertet indicative plural preterite
- erweitere! imperative singular
- erweitert! imperative plural
- erweitert haben active infinitive perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to erweitern
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is erweitern in German?
erweitern appears 11 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).