kaprizieren
German, verb
kaprizieren is spelled K-A-P-R-I-Z-I-E-R-E-N (11 letters) and appears about once in every 58 million words in written German, the 464,147th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Kaprizieren is a German verb meaning “to set one's heart on, to insist on” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Kaprizieren is a different word: “gerund of kaprizieren”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “sich willkürlich, aus schierer Laune, überstürzt oder halsstarrig auf etwas festlegen”.
What does kaprizieren mean in English?
verb
- 1
to set one's heart on, to insist on
noun
- 1
neutergerund of kaprizieren
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. sich willkürlich, aus schierer Laune, überstürzt oder halsstarrig auf etwas festlegen
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 kaprizieren
- kapriziert present singular third-person
- kaprizierte past
- haben auxiliary
- kaprizierend participle present
- kapriziere first-person indicative present
- kaprizierst indicative present second-person
- kaprizierest second-person singular subjunctive
- kaprizieret plural second-person subjunctive
- kaprizierten first-person indicative plural
- kapriziertest indicative preterite second-person
- kapriziertet indicative plural preterite
- kaprizier imperative second-person singular
- habe kapriziert first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben kapriziert first-person indicative multiword-construction
- kaprizier! imperative singular
- kapriziere! imperative singular
- kapriziert! imperative plural
- sich kaprizieren reflexive infinitive present
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is kaprizieren in German?
kaprizieren appears about once in every 58 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).