gegenwirken
German, verb
gegenwirken is spelled G-E-G-E-N-W-I-R-K-E-N (11 letters) and appears about once in every 49 million words in written German, the 423,336th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Gegenwirken is a German verb meaning “to counteract or counter” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
What does gegenwirken mean in English?
verb
- 1
to counteract or counter
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Forms of gegenwirken
- wirkt gegen present singular third-person
- wirkte gegen past
- gegengewirkt participle past
- haben auxiliary
- gegenwirkend participle present
- gegenzuwirken infinitive infinitive-zu
- wirke gegen first-person indicative present
- wirken gegen first-person indicative plural
- wirkst gegen indicative present second-person
- wirkest gegen second-person singular subjunctive
- wirket gegen plural second-person subjunctive
- wirkten gegen first-person indicative plural
- wirktest gegen indicative preterite second-person
- wirktet gegen indicative plural preterite
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is gegenwirken in German?
gegenwirken appears about once in every 49 million words in written German.
gegenwirken0.0010.010.11101001,00010,000
rarerper million words of written Germanmore common
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).