lamentieren
German, verb[lamɛnˈtiːʁən]
lamentieren is spelled L-A-M-E-N-T-I-E-R-E-N (11 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written German, the 74,397th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Lamentieren is a German verb meaning “to lament” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “jammern, klagen”.
What does lamentieren mean in English?
verb
- 1
to lament
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. jammern, klagen
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 lamentieren
- lamentiert present singular third-person
- lamentierte past
- haben auxiliary
- lamentierend participle present
- lamentiere first-person indicative present
- lamentierst indicative present second-person
- lamentierest second-person singular subjunctive
- lamentieret plural second-person subjunctive
- lamentierten first-person indicative plural
- lamentiertest indicative preterite second-person
- lamentiertet indicative plural preterite
- lamentier imperative second-person singular
- habe lamentiert first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben lamentiert first-person indicative multiword-construction
- lamentiere! imperative singular
- lamentier! imperative singular
- lamentiert! imperative plural
- lamentiert haben active infinitive perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce lamentieren?
- [lamɛnˈtiːʁən]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is lamentieren in German?
lamentieren appears about once in every 3 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).