salutieren
German, verb
salutieren is spelled S-A-L-U-T-I-E-R-E-N (10 letters) and appears about once in every 8 million words in written German, the 152,733rd most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Salutieren is a German verb meaning “to salute (make a gesture in honor of someone or something)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Salutieren is a different word: “gerund of salutieren”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “militärisch grüßen, die militärische Ehre erweisen”.
What does salutieren mean in English?
verb
- 1
to salute (make a gesture in honor of someone or something)
noun
- 1
neutergerund of salutieren
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. militärisch grüßen, die militärische Ehre erweisen 2. Salut schießen 3. jemanden durch Anlegen der Hand an den Kopf grüßen
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 salutieren
- salutiert present singular third-person
- salutierte past
- haben auxiliary
- salutierend participle present
- salutiere first-person indicative present
- salutierst indicative present second-person
- salutierest second-person singular subjunctive
- salutieret plural second-person subjunctive
- salutierten first-person indicative plural
- salutiertest indicative preterite second-person
- salutiertet indicative plural preterite
- salutier imperative second-person singular
- habe salutiert first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben salutiert first-person indicative multiword-construction
- salutier! imperative singular
- salutiere! imperative singular
- salutiert! imperative plural
- salutiert haben active infinitive perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is salutieren in German?
salutieren appears about once in every 8 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).