nötigen
German, verb
nötigen is spelled N-Ö-T-I-G-E-N (7 letters) and appears 12 times per million words in written German, the 5,929th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Nötigen is a German verb meaning “to coerce (force someone through violence or threat)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a strong genitive masculine/neuter singular of nötig. With a capital, Nötigen is a different word: “gerund of nötigen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “jemanden durch Androhung oder Ausübung von Gewalt zu etwas zwingen”.
What does nötigen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to coerce (force someone through violence or threat)
- 2
to oblige, railroad (make someone do something through cajolement, haste, moral pressure, etc.)
adjective
- 1
masculineneuterstrong genitive masculine/neuter singular
- 2
weak/mixed genitive/dative all-gender singular
- 3
masculinestrong/weak/mixed accusative masculine singular
- 4
strong dative plural
- 5
weak/mixed all-case plural
noun
- 1
neutergerund of nötigen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. jemanden durch Androhung oder Ausübung von Gewalt zu etwas zwingen
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 nötigen
- nötigt present singular third-person
- nötigte past
- genötigt participle past
- haben auxiliary
- nötigend participle present
- nötige first-person indicative present
- nötigst indicative present second-person
- nötigest second-person singular subjunctive
- nötiget plural second-person subjunctive
- nötigten first-person indicative plural
- nötigtest indicative preterite second-person
- nötigtet indicative plural preterite
- nötig imperative second-person singular
- habe genötigt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben genötigt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- nöthigen obsolete
- nötige! imperative singular
- nötigt! imperative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to nötigen
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is nötigen in German?
nötigen appears 12 times per million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).