geraten
German, verb
geraten is spelled G-E-R-A-T-E-N (7 letters) and appears 26 times per million words in written German, the 3,122nd most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Geraten is a German verb meaning “to turn out; to succeed; to thrive” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a past participle of raten (“to advise, to recommend, to guess”). On this page, Geräten is a different word: “dative plural of Gerät”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “zufällig/ ohne Absicht an den falschen Ort oder in eine unangenehme Situation kommen”.
What does geraten mean in English?
verb
- 1
to turn out; to succeed; to thrive
- 2
to take after; to come to resemble
- 3
to come (across, by); to fall (upon)
- 4
to get (into); to fall (into); to come (to); to fly (into)
adjective
- 1
advisable
- 2
guessed; solved
verb
- 1
past participle of raten (“to advise, to recommend, to guess”)
noun
- 1
neuterdative plural of Gerät
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. zufällig/ ohne Absicht an den falschen Ort oder in eine unangenehme Situation kommen 2. erfolgreich zu Ende gebracht werden 3. jemandem ähnlich sehen
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 geraten
- gerät present singular third-person
- geriet past
- sein auxiliary
- 7 strong
- geratend participle present
- gerate first-person indicative present
- gerätst indicative present second-person
- geratet indicative plural present
- geratest second-person singular subjunctive
- gerieten first-person indicative plural
- geriete first-person formal rare
- gerietest indicative preterite second-person
- gerietst indicative preterite second-person
- gerietet indicative plural preterite
- gerat imperative second-person singular
- bin geraten first-person indicative multiword-construction
- gerate! imperative singular
- gerat! imperative singular
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to geraten
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is geraten in German?
geraten appears 26 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).