persiflieren
German, verb/pɛʁziˈfliːʁən/
persiflieren is spelled P-E-R-S-I-F-L-I-E-R-E-N (12 letters) and appears about once in every 16 million words in written German, the 222,832nd most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Persiflieren is a German verb meaning “to satirize” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “jemanden durch eine Persiflage auf eine geistreiche und feine Art verspotten, oft durch übertreibende…”.
What does persiflieren mean in English?
verb
- 1
to satirize
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. jemanden durch eine Persiflage auf eine geistreiche und feine Art verspotten, oft durch übertreibende Nachahmung
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 persiflieren
- persifliert present singular third-person
- persiflierte past
- haben auxiliary
- persiflierend participle present
- persifliere first-person indicative present
- persiflierst indicative present second-person
- persiflierest second-person singular subjunctive
- persiflieret plural second-person subjunctive
- persiflierten first-person indicative plural
- persifliertest indicative preterite second-person
- persifliertet indicative plural preterite
- persiflier imperative second-person singular
- habe persifliert first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben persifliert first-person indicative multiword-construction
- persifliere! imperative singular
- persiflier! imperative singular
- persifliert! imperative plural
- persifliert haben active infinitive perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce persiflieren?
- /pɛʁziˈfliːʁən/
- [pɛʁziˈfliːʁən]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is persiflieren in German?
persiflieren appears about once in every 16 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).