geziemen
German, verb/ɡəˈt͡siːmən/
geziemen is spelled G-E-Z-I-E-M-E-N (8 letters) and appears about once in every 50 million words in written German, the 428,887th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Geziemen is a German verb meaning “to beseem, to be appropriate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “den Sitten, den Regeln des Anstands entsprechen”.
What does geziemen mean in English?
verb
- 1
datedto beseem, to be appropriate
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. den Sitten, den Regeln des Anstands entsprechen
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 geziemen
- geziemt present singular third-person
- geziemte past
- haben auxiliary
- geziemend participle present
- es geziemt indicative present singular
- es gezieme singular subjunctive subjunctive-i
- es geziemte indicative preterite singular
- es hat geziemt indicative multiword-construction perfect
- es habe geziemt multiword-construction perfect singular
- es hatte geziemt indicative multiword-construction pluperfect
- es hätte geziemt multiword-construction pluperfect singular
- geziemen werden future future-i infinitive
- es werde geziemen future future-i multiword-construction
- es wird geziemen future future-i indicative
- es würde geziemen future future-i multiword-construction
- geziemt haben werden future future-ii infinitive
- es werde geziemt haben future future-ii multiword-construction
- es wird geziemt haben future future-ii indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce geziemen?
- /ɡəˈt͡siːmən/
- [ɡəˈt͡siːmən]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is geziemen in German?
geziemen appears about once in every 50 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).