reinigen
German, verb
reinigen is spelled R-E-I-N-I-G-E-N (8 letters) and appears 6.8 times per million words in written German, the 9,700th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Reinigen is a German verb meaning “to clean” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Reinigen is a different word: “gerund of reinigen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “etwas von Schmutz befreien, eine Verunreinigung beseitigen”.
What does reinigen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to clean
noun
- 1
neutergerund of reinigen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. etwas von Schmutz befreien, eine Verunreinigung beseitigen 2. speziell Textilien ohne Wasser reinigen^([1]) 3. etwas (Produkt, Rohstoff) veredeln, verbessern, verfeinern, von bestimmten unerwünschten Bestandteilen trennen, filtern 4. einen Reinigungseid ablegen
noun: 1. Beseitigen von Verunreinigungen, Befreien von Schmutz
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 reinigen
- reinigt present singular third-person
- reinigte past
- gereinigt participle past
- haben auxiliary
- reinigend participle present
- reinige first-person indicative present
- reinigst indicative present second-person
- reinigest second-person singular subjunctive
- reiniget plural second-person subjunctive
- reinigten first-person indicative plural
- reinigtest indicative preterite second-person
- reinigtet indicative plural preterite
- reinig imperative second-person singular
- habe gereinigt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben gereinigt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- reinig! imperative singular
- reinige! imperative singular
- reinigt! imperative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to reinigen
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is reinigen in German?
reinigen appears 6.8 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).