reizen
German, verb
reizen is spelled R-E-I-Z-E-N (6 letters) and appears 2.9 times per million words in written German, the 18,511th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Reizen is a German verb meaning “to irritate (to cause or induce displeasure or irritation)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Reizen is a different word: “dative plural of Reiz”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “jemandes Interesse wecken”.
What does reizen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to irritate (to cause or induce displeasure or irritation)
- 2
to excite
- 3
to tease, tantalize
- 4
to provoke
noun
- 1
masculinedative plural of Reiz
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. jemandes Interesse wecken 2. provozieren, ärgern 3. (sexuell) anregen, erregen 4. den Gegner zu einem höherwertigen Spiel herausfordern
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 reizen
- reizt present singular third-person
- reizte past
- gereizt participle past
- haben auxiliary
- reizend participle present
- reize first-person indicative present
- reizest second-person singular subjunctive
- reizet plural second-person subjunctive
- reizten first-person indicative plural
- reiztest indicative preterite second-person
- reiztet indicative plural preterite
- reiz imperative second-person singular
- habe gereizt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben gereizt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- reize! imperative singular
- reiz! imperative singular
- reizt! imperative plural
- gereizt haben active infinitive perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to reizen
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is reizen in German?
reizen appears 2.9 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).