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polemisieren

German, verb[polemiˈziːʁən]

polemisieren is spelled P-O-L-E-M-I-S-I-E-R-E-N (12 letters) and appears about once in every 5 million words in written German, the 111,951st most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Polemisieren is a German verb meaning “to polemicize” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “gegen jemanden oder etwas eine Polemik führen”.

What does polemisieren mean in English?

verb

  1. 1

    to polemicize

Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How German dictionaries define it

verb: 1. gegen jemanden oder etwas eine Polemik führen

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 polemisieren

  • polemisiert present singular third-person
  • polemisierte past
  • haben auxiliary
  • polemisierend participle present
  • polemisiere first-person indicative present
  • polemisierst indicative present second-person
  • polemisierest second-person singular subjunctive
  • polemisieret plural second-person subjunctive
  • polemisierten first-person indicative plural
  • polemisiertest indicative preterite second-person
  • polemisiertet indicative plural preterite
  • polemisier imperative second-person singular
  • habe polemisiert first-person indicative multiword-construction
  • haben polemisiert first-person indicative multiword-construction
  • pol. abbreviation
  • polemisier! imperative singular
  • polemisiere! imperative singular
  • polemisiert! imperative plural

Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce polemisieren?

  • [polemiˈziːʁən]

Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

How common is polemisieren in German?

polemisieren appears about once in every 5 million words in written German.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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