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Geiern

German, noun[ˈɡaɪ̯ɐn]

Geiern is spelled G-E-I-E-R-N (6 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written German, the 77,779th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Geiern is a German masculine noun meaning “dative plural of Geier” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

What does Geiern mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculinedative plural of Geier

Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How German dictionaries define it

verb: 1. begehrliches Verhalten zeigen 2. lachen

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 Geiern

  • geiere present
  • geierst present
  • geiert present
  • geierte past
  • geier! imperative singular
  • geiere! imperative singular
  • geiert! imperative plural
  • gegeiert participle-2 perfect
  • haben auxiliary perfect
  • gegeiert haben active infinitive perfect
  • zu geiern active extended infinitive
  • gegeiert zu haben active extended infinitive
  • geiernd participle present active
  • geire! imperative second-person singular
  • habe gegeiert! imperative uncommon second-person

Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce Geiern?

  • [ˈɡaɪ̯ɐn]

Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

How common is Geiern in German?

Geiern 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).

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