regieren
German, verb
regieren is spelled R-E-G-I-E-R-E-N (8 letters) and appears 8.5 times per million words in written German, the 8,046th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Regieren is a German verb meaning “to govern” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Regieren is a different word: “gerund of regieren”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “die Herrschaft ausüben, die Macht haben”.
What does regieren mean in English?
verb
- 1
to govern
noun
- 1
neutergerund of regieren
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. die Herrschaft ausüben, die Macht haben 2. den Kasus bestimmen, einen Fall verlangen
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 regieren
- regiert present singular third-person
- regierte past
- haben auxiliary
- regierend participle present
- regiere first-person indicative present
- regierst indicative present second-person
- regierest second-person singular subjunctive
- regieret plural second-person subjunctive
- regierten first-person indicative plural
- regiertest indicative preterite second-person
- regiertet indicative plural preterite
- regier imperative second-person singular
- habe regiert first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben regiert first-person indicative multiword-construction
- regiere! imperative singular
- regier! imperative singular
- regiert! imperative plural
- regiert haben active infinitive perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to regieren
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is regieren in German?
regieren appears 8.5 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).