mattieren
German, verb[maˈtiːʁən]
mattieren is spelled M-A-T-T-I-E-R-E-N (9 letters) and appears about once in every 83 million words in written German, the 571,872nd most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Mattieren is a German verb meaning “to tarnish, to mat, to opaque” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “etwas glanzlos, matt, stumpf, undurchsichtig machen; den Glanz von etwas entfernen”.
What does mattieren mean in English?
verb
- 1
to tarnish, to mat, to opaque
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. etwas glanzlos, matt, stumpf, undurchsichtig machen; den Glanz von etwas entfernen
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 mattieren
- mattiert present singular third-person
- mattierte past
- haben auxiliary
- mattierend participle present
- mattiere first-person indicative present
- mattierst indicative present second-person
- mattierest second-person singular subjunctive
- mattieret plural second-person subjunctive
- mattierten first-person indicative plural
- mattiertest indicative preterite second-person
- mattiertet indicative plural preterite
- mattier imperative second-person singular
- habe mattiert first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben mattiert first-person indicative multiword-construction
- mattier! imperative singular
- mattiere! imperative singular
- mattiert! imperative plural
- mattiert haben active infinitive perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce mattieren?
- [maˈtiːʁən]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to mattieren
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is mattieren in German?
mattieren appears about once in every 83 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).