negieren
German, verb[neˈɡiːʁən]
negieren is spelled N-E-G-I-E-R-E-N (8 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written German, the 60,441st most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Negieren is a German verb meaning “to negate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “abstreiten, leugnen, eine Sache als nicht existent betrachten oder behaupten”.
What does negieren mean in English?
verb
- 1
to negate
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. abstreiten, leugnen, eine Sache als nicht existent betrachten oder behaupten 2. einer Sache ablehnend gegenüberstehen 3. mit einem verneinenden Ausdruck versehen; verneinen
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 negieren
- negiert present singular third-person
- negierte past
- haben auxiliary
- negierend participle present
- negiere first-person indicative present
- negierst indicative present second-person
- negierest second-person singular subjunctive
- negieret plural second-person subjunctive
- negierten first-person indicative plural
- negiertest indicative preterite second-person
- negiertet indicative plural preterite
- negier imperative second-person singular
- habe negiert first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben negiert first-person indicative multiword-construction
- negiren obsolete
- negiere! imperative singular
- negier! imperative singular
- negiert! imperative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce negieren?
- [neˈɡiːʁən]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to negieren
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is negieren in German?
negieren 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).