rentieren
German, verb
rentieren is spelled R-E-N-T-I-E-R-E-N (9 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written German, the 60,441st most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Rentieren is a German verb meaning “to be profitable, worthwhile” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Rentieren is a different word: “dative plural of Rentier”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “sich lohnen, einen Gewinn abwerfen”.
What does rentieren mean in English?
verb
- 1
to be profitable, worthwhile
noun
- 1
neuterdative plural of Rentier
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. sich lohnen, einen Gewinn abwerfen
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 rentieren
- rentiert present singular third-person
- rentierte past
- haben auxiliary
- rentierend participle present
- rentiere first-person indicative present
- rentierst indicative present second-person
- rentierest second-person singular subjunctive
- rentieret plural second-person subjunctive
- rentierten first-person indicative plural
- rentiertest indicative preterite second-person
- rentiertet indicative plural preterite
- rentier imperative second-person singular
- habe rentiert first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben rentiert first-person indicative multiword-construction
- rentiere! imperative singular
- rentier! imperative singular
- rentiert! imperative plural
- rentiert haben active infinitive perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is rentieren in German?
rentieren 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).