kleiden
German, verb
kleiden is spelled K-L-E-I-D-E-N (7 letters) and appears 2.1 times per million words in written German, the 23,059th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Kleiden is a German verb meaning “to dress, to clothe” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Kleiden is a different word: “gerund of kleiden”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “mit Kleidung versehen”.
What does kleiden mean in English?
verb
- 1
to dress, to clothe
noun
- 1
neutergerund of kleiden
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. mit Kleidung versehen 2. jemandem gut stehen, gut zu jemandem passen 3. etwas in einer bestimmten (beschönigenden) Form ausdrücken
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 kleiden
- kleidet present singular third-person
- kleidete past
- gekleidet participle past
- haben auxiliary
- kleidend participle present
- kleide first-person indicative present
- kleidest indicative present second-person
- kleideten first-person indicative plural
- kleidetest indicative preterite second-person
- kleidetet indicative plural preterite
- kleid imperative second-person singular
- habe gekleidet first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben gekleidet first-person indicative multiword-construction
- kleide! imperative singular
- kleidet! imperative plural
- gekleidet haben active infinitive perfect
- gekleidet werden processual-passive infinitive present
- gekleidet worden sein processual-passive infinitive perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to kleiden
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is kleiden in German?
kleiden appears 2.1 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).