kultivieren
German, verb/kʊltiˈviːʁən/
kultivieren is spelled K-U-L-T-I-V-I-E-R-E-N (11 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written German, the 54,418th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Kultivieren is a German verb meaning “to cultivate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “Land urbar machen”.
What does kultivieren mean in English?
verb
- 1
to cultivate
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Land urbar machen 2. Pflanzen (Getreide, Gemüse, Obst, Kräuter, Rosen …) züchten oder anbauen, Land bebauen 3. etwas verfeinern, etwas entwickeln oder auf eine höhere Stufe bringen (z.B. sein Klavierspiel, Benehmen, …), etwas sorgsam pflegen (Freundschaft)
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 kultivieren
- kultiviert present singular third-person
- kultivierte past
- haben auxiliary
- kultivierend participle present
- kultiviere first-person indicative present
- kultivierst indicative present second-person
- kultivierest second-person singular subjunctive
- kultivieret plural second-person subjunctive
- kultivierten first-person indicative plural
- kultiviertest indicative preterite second-person
- kultiviertet indicative plural preterite
- kultivier imperative second-person singular
- habe kultiviert first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben kultiviert first-person indicative multiword-construction
- cultivieren obsolete
- kultivier! imperative singular
- kultiviere! imperative singular
- kultiviert! imperative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce kultivieren?
- /kʊltiˈviːʁən/
- [kʊltiˈviːʁən]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to kultivieren
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is kultivieren in German?
kultivieren 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).