imitieren
German, verb
imitieren is spelled I-M-I-T-I-E-R-E-N (9 letters) and appears 1.6 times per million words in written German, the 28,120th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Imitieren is a German verb meaning “to imitate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Imitieren is a different word: “gerund of imitieren”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “etwas nach dem Muster, Vorbild von etwas Anderem tun”.
What does imitieren mean in English?
verb
- 1
to imitate
noun
- 1
neutergerund of imitieren
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. etwas nach dem Muster, Vorbild von etwas Anderem tun
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 imitieren
- imitiert present singular third-person
- imitierte past
- haben auxiliary
- imitierend participle present
- imitiere first-person indicative present
- imitierst indicative present second-person
- imitierest second-person singular subjunctive
- imitieret plural second-person subjunctive
- imitierten first-person indicative plural
- imitiertest indicative preterite second-person
- imitiertet indicative plural preterite
- imitier imperative second-person singular
- habe imitiert first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben imitiert first-person indicative multiword-construction
- imitiere! imperative singular
- imitier! imperative singular
- imitiert! imperative plural
- imitiert haben active infinitive perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to imitieren
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is imitieren in German?
imitieren appears 1.6 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).