kollaborieren
German, verb/kɔlaboˈʁiːʁən/
kollaborieren is spelled K-O-L-L-A-B-O-R-I-E-R-E-N (13 letters) and appears about once in every 11 million words in written German, the 179,801st most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Kollaborieren is a German verb meaning “to collaborate with the enemy” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “mit dem Feind zusammenarbeiten (insbesondere mit Kriegsgegnern, feindlichen Gruppen und Ähnlichen)”.
What does kollaborieren mean in English?
verb
- 1
derogatoryto collaborate with the enemy
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. mit dem Feind zusammenarbeiten (insbesondere mit Kriegsgegnern, feindlichen Gruppen und Ähnlichen)
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 kollaborieren
- kollaboriert present singular third-person
- kollaborierte past
- haben auxiliary
- kollaborierend participle present
- kollaboriere first-person indicative present
- kollaborierst indicative present second-person
- kollaborierest second-person singular subjunctive
- kollaborieret plural second-person subjunctive
- kollaborierten first-person indicative plural
- kollaboriertest indicative preterite second-person
- kollaboriertet indicative plural preterite
- kollaborier imperative second-person singular
- habe kollaboriert first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben kollaboriert first-person indicative multiword-construction
- kollaboriere! imperative singular
- kollaborier! imperative singular
- kollaboriert! imperative plural
- kollaboriert haben active infinitive perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce kollaborieren?
- /kɔlaboˈʁiːʁən/
- /kɔlaboˈʁiːɐ̯n/
- [kɔlaboˈʁiːʁən]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to kollaborieren
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is kollaborieren in German?
kollaborieren appears about once in every 11 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).