rationieren
German, verb[ʁat͡si̯oˈniːʁən]
rationieren is spelled R-A-T-I-O-N-I-E-R-E-N (11 letters) and appears about once in every 18 million words in written German, the 241,486th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Rationieren is a German verb meaning “to ration” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “Verbrauchsgüter in Krisenzeiten oder Notsituationen nur in kleinen, festgelegten Mengen freigeben oder…”.
What does rationieren mean in English?
verb
- 1
to ration
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Verbrauchsgüter in Krisenzeiten oder Notsituationen nur in kleinen, festgelegten Mengen freigeben oder zuteilen
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 rationieren
- rationiert present singular third-person
- rationierte past
- haben auxiliary
- rationierend participle present
- rationiere first-person indicative present
- rationierst indicative present second-person
- rationierest second-person singular subjunctive
- rationieret plural second-person subjunctive
- rationierten first-person indicative plural
- rationiertest indicative preterite second-person
- rationiertet indicative plural preterite
- rationier imperative second-person singular
- habe rationiert first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben rationiert first-person indicative multiword-construction
- rationier! imperative singular
- rationiere! imperative singular
- rationiert! imperative plural
- rationiert haben active infinitive perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce rationieren?
- [ʁat͡si̯oˈniːʁən]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to rationieren
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is rationieren in German?
rationieren appears about once in every 18 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).