geigen
German, verb
geigen is spelled G-E-I-G-E-N (6 letters) and appears 1.1 times per million words in written German, the 35,692nd most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Geigen is a German verb meaning “to fiddle, to play on the violin” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Geigen is a different word: “plural of Geige”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “Geige spielen”.
What does geigen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to fiddle, to play on the violin
jemandem die Meinung geigen
noun
- 1
plural of Geige
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Geige spielen 2. auf der Geige spielen 3. mit Dativ, jemandem etwas klarmachen
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 geigen
- geigt present singular third-person
- geigte past
- gegeigt participle past
- haben auxiliary
- geigend participle present
- geige first-person indicative present
- geigst indicative present second-person
- geigest second-person singular subjunctive
- geiget plural second-person subjunctive
- geigten first-person indicative plural
- geigtest indicative preterite second-person
- geigtet indicative plural preterite
- geig imperative second-person singular
- habe gegeigt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben gegeigt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- geig! imperative singular
- geige! imperative singular
- geigt! imperative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is geigen in German?
geigen appears 1.1 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).