kampieren
German, verb/kamˈpiːʁən/
kampieren is spelled K-A-M-P-I-E-R-E-N (9 letters) and appears about once in every 8 million words in written German, the 146,442nd most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Kampieren is a German verb meaning “to camp (live in a temporary accommodation)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “in einem Lager draußen übernachten oder auf einem Zelt- beziehungsweise Campingplatz seine Zeit verbringen”.
What does kampieren mean in English?
verb
- 1
to camp (live in a temporary accommodation)
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. in einem Lager draußen übernachten oder auf einem Zelt- beziehungsweise Campingplatz seine Zeit verbringen 2. behelfsmäßig hausen
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 kampieren
- kampiert present singular third-person
- kampierte past
- haben auxiliary
- kampierend participle present
- kampiere first-person indicative present
- kampierst indicative present second-person
- kampierest second-person singular subjunctive
- kampieret plural second-person subjunctive
- kampierten first-person indicative plural
- kampiertest indicative preterite second-person
- kampiertet indicative plural preterite
- kampier imperative second-person singular
- habe kampiert first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben kampiert first-person indicative multiword-construction
- campieren alternative
- kampier! imperative singular
- kampiere! imperative singular
- kampiert! imperative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce kampieren?
- /kamˈpiːʁən/
- [kamˈpiːʁən]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is kampieren in German?
kampieren appears about once in every 8 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).