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innovieren

German, verb/ɪnoˈviːʁən/

innovieren is spelled I-N-N-O-V-I-E-R-E-N (10 letters) and appears about once in every 30 million words in written German, the 321,814th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Innovieren is a German verb meaning “to innovate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “etwas Neues, das positive Veränderungen verspricht, einführen”.

What does innovieren mean in English?

verb

  1. 1

    to innovate

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

How German dictionaries define it

verb: 1. etwas Neues, das positive Veränderungen verspricht, einführen

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 innovieren

  • innoviert present singular third-person
  • innovierte past
  • haben auxiliary
  • innovierend participle present
  • innoviere first-person indicative present
  • innovierst indicative present second-person
  • innovierest second-person singular subjunctive
  • innovieret plural second-person subjunctive
  • innovierten first-person indicative plural
  • innoviertest indicative preterite second-person
  • innoviertet indicative plural preterite
  • innovier imperative second-person singular
  • habe innoviert first-person indicative multiword-construction
  • haben innoviert first-person indicative multiword-construction
  • innovier! imperative singular
  • innoviere! imperative singular
  • innoviert! imperative plural
  • innoviert haben active infinitive perfect

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

How do you pronounce innovieren?

  • /ɪnoˈviːʁən/
  • [ɪnoˈviːʁən]

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

English words that translate to innovieren

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is innovieren in German?

innovieren appears about once in every 30 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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