kriminalisieren
German, verb[kʁiminaliˈziːʁən]
kriminalisieren is spelled K-R-I-M-I-N-A-L-I-S-I-E-R-E-N (15 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written German, the 71,199th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Kriminalisieren is a German verb meaning “to criminalize” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “jemanden in die Kriminalität drängen, in jemandem kriminelle Neigungen hervorrufen”.
What does kriminalisieren mean in English?
verb
- 1
to criminalize
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. jemanden in die Kriminalität drängen, in jemandem kriminelle Neigungen hervorrufen 2. etwas als kriminell hinstellen
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 kriminalisieren
- kriminalisiert present singular third-person
- kriminalisierte past
- haben auxiliary
- kriminalisierend participle present
- kriminalisiere first-person indicative present
- kriminalisierst indicative present second-person
- kriminalisierest second-person singular subjunctive
- kriminalisieret plural second-person subjunctive
- kriminalisierten first-person indicative plural
- kriminalisiertest indicative preterite second-person
- kriminalisiertet indicative plural preterite
- kriminalisier imperative second-person singular
- habe kriminalisiert first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben kriminalisiert first-person indicative multiword-construction
- kriminalisier! imperative singular
- kriminalisiere! imperative singular
- kriminalisiert! imperative plural
- kriminalisiert haben active infinitive perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce kriminalisieren?
- [kʁiminaliˈziːʁən]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to kriminalisieren
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is kriminalisieren in German?
kriminalisieren appears about once in every 2 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).