fotografieren
German, verb/fotoɡʁaˈfiːʁən/
fotografieren is spelled F-O-T-O-G-R-A-F-I-E-R-E-N (13 letters) and appears 8.7 times per million words in written German, the 7,885th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Fotografieren is a German verb meaning “to photograph” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “ein Foto machen”.
What does fotografieren mean in English?
verb
- 1
to photograph
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. ein Foto machen
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 fotografieren
- fotografiert present singular third-person
- fotografierte past
- haben auxiliary
- fotografierend participle present
- fotografiere first-person indicative present
- fotografierst indicative present second-person
- fotografierest second-person singular subjunctive
- fotografieret plural second-person subjunctive
- fotografierten first-person indicative plural
- fotografiertest indicative preterite second-person
- fotografiertet indicative plural preterite
- fotografier imperative second-person singular
- habe fotografiert first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben fotografiert first-person indicative multiword-construction
- fotographieren obsolete
- photografieren obsolete
- photographieren obsolete
- fotografiere! imperative singular
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce fotografieren?
- /fotoɡʁaˈfiːʁən/
- [fotoɡʁaˈfiːʁən]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to fotografieren
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is fotografieren in German?
fotografieren appears 8.7 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).