geleiten
German, verb
geleiten is spelled G-E-L-E-I-T-E-N (8 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written German, the 53,554th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Geleiten is a German verb meaning “to escort; convoy” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Geleiten is a different word: “dative plural of Geleit”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “beschützend oder höflichkeitshalber zur gleichen Zeit den gleichen Weg nehmen”.
What does geleiten mean in English?
verb
- 1
to escort; convoy
noun
- 1
neuterdative plural of Geleit
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. beschützend oder höflichkeitshalber zur gleichen Zeit den gleichen Weg nehmen
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 geleiten
- geleitet present singular third-person
- geleitete past
- haben auxiliary
- geleitend participle present
- geleite first-person indicative present
- geleitest indicative present second-person
- geleiteten first-person indicative plural
- geleitetest indicative preterite second-person
- geleitetet indicative plural preterite
- geleit imperative second-person singular
- habe geleitet first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben geleitet first-person indicative multiword-construction
- geleite! imperative singular
- geleit! imperative singular
- geleitet! imperative plural
- geleitet haben active infinitive perfect
- geleitet werden processual-passive infinitive present
- geleitet worden sein processual-passive infinitive perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to geleiten
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is geleiten in German?
geleiten appears about once in every 2 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).