knieen
German, verb
knieen is spelled K-N-I-E-E-N (6 letters) and appears about once in every 23 million words in written German, the 274,993rd most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Knieen is a German verb meaning “Former spelling of knien which is no longer standard” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
What does knieen mean in English?
verb
- 1
Former spelling of knien which is no longer standard.
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Forms of knieen
- kniet present singular third-person
- kniete past
- gekniet participle past
- haben auxiliary
- knieend participle present
- kniee first-person indicative present
- kniest indicative present second-person
- knieest second-person singular subjunctive
- knieet plural second-person subjunctive
- knieten first-person indicative plural
- knietest indicative preterite second-person
- knietet indicative plural preterite
- knie imperative second-person singular
- habe gekniet first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben gekniet first-person indicative multiword-construction
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is knieen in German?
knieen appears about once in every 23 million words in written German.
knieen0.0010.010.11101001,00010,000
rarerper million words of written Germanmore common
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).