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rehabilitieren

German, verb

rehabilitieren is a German verb meaning “to rehabilitate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Rehabilitieren is a different word: “gerund of rehabilitieren”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “jemandes Ansehen/den guten Ruf wiederherstellen, korrigieren, revidieren, richtigstellen, wieder einsetzen”.

What does rehabilitieren mean in English?

verb

  1. 1

    to rehabilitate

noun

as Rehabilitieren
  1. 1

    neutergerund of rehabilitieren

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

How German dictionaries define it

verb: 1. jemandes Ansehen/den guten Ruf wiederherstellen, korrigieren, revidieren, richtigstellen, wieder einsetzen 2. den gesundheitlichen Zustand einer Person verbessern, so dass sie wieder mehr am Berufs- und/oder gesellschaftlichen Leben teilnehmen kann

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 rehabilitieren

  • rehabilitiert present singular third-person
  • rehabilitierte past
  • haben auxiliary
  • rehabilitierend participle present
  • rehabilitiere first-person indicative present
  • rehabilitierst indicative present second-person
  • rehabilitierest second-person singular subjunctive
  • rehabilitieret plural second-person subjunctive
  • rehabilitierten first-person indicative plural
  • rehabilitiertest indicative preterite second-person
  • rehabilitiertet indicative plural preterite
  • rehabilitier imperative second-person singular
  • habe rehabilitiert first-person indicative multiword-construction
  • haben rehabilitiert first-person indicative multiword-construction
  • rehabilitiere! imperative singular
  • rehabilitier! imperative singular
  • rehabilitiert! imperative plural
  • rehabilitiert haben active infinitive perfect

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

English words that translate to rehabilitieren

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is rehabilitieren in German?

rehabilitieren appears about once in every 2 million words in written German.

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