potenzieren
German, verb
potenzieren is spelled P-O-T-E-N-Z-I-E-R-E-N (11 letters) and appears about once in every 6 million words in written German, the 121,881st most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Potenzieren is a German verb meaning “to raise to the power” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Potenzieren is a different word: “gerund of potenzieren”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “etwas deutlich vergrößern, erhöhen”.
What does potenzieren mean in English?
verb
- 1
to raise to the power
noun
- 1
neutergerund of potenzieren
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. etwas deutlich vergrößern, erhöhen 2. mehrmals mit sich selbst multiplizieren
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 potenzieren
- potenziert present singular third-person
- potenzierte past
- haben auxiliary
- potenzierend participle present
- potenziere first-person indicative present
- potenzierst indicative present second-person
- potenzierest second-person singular subjunctive
- potenzieret plural second-person subjunctive
- potenzierten first-person indicative plural
- potenziertest indicative preterite second-person
- potenziertet indicative plural preterite
- potenzier imperative second-person singular
- habe potenziert first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben potenziert first-person indicative multiword-construction
- potenziere! imperative singular
- potenzier! imperative singular
- potenziert! imperative plural
- potenziert haben active infinitive perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is potenzieren in German?
potenzieren appears about once in every 6 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).