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habilitieren

German, verb/habiliˈtiːʁən/

habilitieren is spelled H-A-B-I-L-I-T-I-E-R-E-N (12 letters) and appears about once in every 14 million words in written German, the 208,435th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Habilitieren is a German verb meaning “to habilitate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “die Lehrbefähigung an Hochschulen erlangen/erwerben”.

What does habilitieren mean in English?

verb

  1. 1

    to habilitate

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

How German dictionaries define it

verb: 1. die Lehrbefähigung an Hochschulen erlangen/erwerben 2. die Lehrbefähigung an Hochschulen verleihen/erteilen

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 habilitieren

  • habilitiert present singular third-person
  • habilitierte past
  • haben auxiliary
  • habilitierend participle present
  • habilitiere first-person indicative present
  • habilitierst indicative present second-person
  • habilitierest second-person singular subjunctive
  • habilitieret plural second-person subjunctive
  • habilitierten first-person indicative plural
  • habilitiertest indicative preterite second-person
  • habilitiertet indicative plural preterite
  • habilitier imperative second-person singular
  • habe habilitiert first-person indicative multiword-construction
  • haben habilitiert first-person indicative multiword-construction
  • habilitiere! imperative singular
  • habilitier! imperative singular
  • habilitiert! imperative plural
  • habilitiert haben active infinitive perfect

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

How do you pronounce habilitieren?

  • /habiliˈtiːʁən/
  • [-ˈtiː.ɐn]
  • [habiliˈtiːʁən]

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

How common is habilitieren in German?

habilitieren appears about once in every 14 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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