freigeben
German, verb
freigeben is spelled F-R-E-I-G-E-B-E-N (9 letters) and appears 2.2 times per million words in written German, the 22,661st most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Freigeben is a German verb meaning “to release, to declassify (to put at public disposal)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Freigeben is a different word: “gerund of freigeben”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “etwas (ein Produkt, Objekt einer Kontrolle) als benutzbar/verfügbar erklären”.
What does freigeben mean in English?
verb
- 1
to release, to declassify (to put at public disposal)
- 2
to release, to liberate (to set free from imprisonment)
- 3
to furlough (to grant a furlough to someone)
- 4
to unlock (to enable access to a protected resource)
- 5
to activate, to enable (to put a software functionality into operation)
noun
- 1
neutergerund of freigeben
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. etwas (ein Produkt, Objekt einer Kontrolle) als benutzbar/verfügbar erklären 2. jemanden aus der Haft entlassen 3. eine Bindung lösen 4. jemandem Freizeit, Urlaub geben
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 freigeben
- gibt frei present singular third-person
- gab frei past
- freigegeben participle past
- gäbe frei past subjunctive
- haben auxiliary
- 5 strong
- freigebend participle present
- freizugeben infinitive infinitive-zu
- gebe frei first-person indicative present
- geben frei first-person indicative plural
- gibst frei indicative present second-person
- gebt frei indicative plural present
- gebest frei second-person singular subjunctive
- gebet frei plural second-person subjunctive
- gaben frei first-person indicative plural
- gäben frei first-person plural subjunctive
- gabst frei indicative preterite second-person
- gabt frei indicative plural preterite
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to freigeben
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is freigeben in German?
freigeben appears 2.2 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).