laborieren
German, verb[laboˈʁiːʁən]
laborieren is a German verb meaning “to travail, to labor, especially with a disease” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “sich mit einer Sache abmühen”.
What does laborieren mean in English?
verb
- 1
archaicto work in a laboratory, to apply chemistry on a specific thing
- 2
to travail, to labor, especially with a disease
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. sich mit einer Sache abmühen 2. gesundheitliche Probleme wenig erfolgreich bekämpfen
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 laborieren
- laboriert present singular third-person
- laborierte past
- haben auxiliary
- laborierend participle present
- laboriere first-person indicative present
- laborierst indicative present second-person
- laborierest second-person singular subjunctive
- laborieret plural second-person subjunctive
- laborierten first-person indicative plural
- laboriertest indicative preterite second-person
- laboriertet indicative plural preterite
- laborier imperative second-person singular
- habe laboriert first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben laboriert first-person indicative multiword-construction
- laboriere! imperative singular
- laborier! imperative singular
- laboriert! imperative plural
- laboriert haben active infinitive perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce laborieren?
- [laboˈʁiːʁən]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is laborieren in German?
laborieren appears about once in every 32 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).