germanisieren
German, verb
germanisieren is spelled G-E-R-M-A-N-I-S-I-E-R-E-N (13 letters) and appears about once in every 65 million words in written German, the 495,385th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Germanisieren is a German verb meaning “to Germanize” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Germanisieren is a different word: “gerund of germanisieren”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “etwas einen deutschen Charakter geben; der deutschen Kultur anpassen”.
What does germanisieren mean in English?
verb
- 1
to Germanize
- 2
to confiscate Jewish property and make it the property of a German
noun
- 1
neutergerund of germanisieren
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. etwas einen deutschen Charakter geben; der deutschen Kultur anpassen
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 germanisieren
- germanisiert present singular third-person
- germanisierte past
- haben auxiliary
- germanisierend participle present
- germanisiere first-person indicative present
- germanisierst indicative present second-person
- germanisierest second-person singular subjunctive
- germanisieret plural second-person subjunctive
- germanisierten first-person indicative plural
- germanisiertest indicative preterite second-person
- germanisiertet indicative plural preterite
- germanisier imperative second-person singular
- habe germanisiert first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben germanisiert first-person indicative multiword-construction
- germanisier! imperative singular
- germanisiere! imperative singular
- germanisiert! imperative plural
- germanisiert haben active infinitive perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to germanisieren
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is germanisieren in German?
germanisieren appears about once in every 65 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).