kooptieren
German, verb/koʔɔpˈtiːʁən/
kooptieren is spelled K-O-O-P-T-I-E-R-E-N (10 letters) and appears about once in every 38 million words in written German, the 366,741st most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Kooptieren is a German verb meaning “to co-opt (to elect as a fellow member of a group)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “hinzuwählen, durch Nachwahl zu einer Körperschaft durch diese selbst hinzuwählen”.
What does kooptieren mean in English?
verb
- 1
to co-opt (to elect as a fellow member of a group)
- 2
to co-opt (to absorb or assimilate into an established group)
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. hinzuwählen, durch Nachwahl zu einer Körperschaft durch diese selbst hinzuwählen
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 kooptieren
- kooptiert present singular third-person
- kooptierte past
- haben auxiliary
- kooptierend participle present
- kooptiere first-person indicative present
- kooptierst indicative present second-person
- kooptierest second-person singular subjunctive
- kooptieret plural second-person subjunctive
- kooptierten first-person indicative plural
- kooptiertest indicative preterite second-person
- kooptiertet indicative plural preterite
- kooptier imperative second-person singular
- habe kooptiert first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben kooptiert first-person indicative multiword-construction
- kooptiere! imperative singular
- kooptier! imperative singular
- kooptiert! imperative plural
- kooptiert haben active infinitive perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce kooptieren?
- /koʔɔpˈtiːʁən/
- [koʔɔpˈtiːʁən]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is kooptieren in German?
kooptieren appears about once in every 38 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).