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gerieren

German, verb[ɡeˈʁiːʁən]

gerieren is spelled G-E-R-I-E-R-E-N (8 letters) and appears about once in every 6 million words in written German, the 123,622nd most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Gerieren is a German verb meaning “to behave in a certain way” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “sich auf eine bestimmte Weise verhalten”.

What does gerieren mean in English?

verb

  1. 1

    to behave in a certain way

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

How German dictionaries define it

verb: 1. sich auf eine bestimmte Weise verhalten

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 gerieren

  • geriert present singular third-person
  • gerierte past
  • haben auxiliary
  • gerierend participle present
  • geriere first-person indicative present
  • gerierst indicative present second-person
  • gerierest second-person singular subjunctive
  • gerieret plural second-person subjunctive
  • gerierten first-person indicative plural
  • geriertest indicative preterite second-person
  • geriertet indicative plural preterite
  • gerier imperative second-person singular
  • habe geriert first-person indicative multiword-construction
  • haben geriert first-person indicative multiword-construction
  • gerier! imperative singular
  • geriere! imperative singular
  • geriert! imperative plural
  • geriert haben active infinitive perfect

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

How do you pronounce gerieren?

  • [ɡeˈʁiːʁən]

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

How common is gerieren in German?

gerieren appears about once in every 6 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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