sekundieren
German, verb
sekundieren is spelled S-E-K-U-N-D-I-E-R-E-N (11 letters) and appears about once in every 21 million words in written German, the 264,454th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Sekundieren is a German verb meaning “to second” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Sekundieren is a different word: “gerund of sekundieren”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “jemandem mit Worten oder Taten Beistand leisten”.
What does sekundieren mean in English?
verb
- 1
to second
noun
- 1
neutergerund of sekundieren
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. jemandem mit Worten oder Taten Beistand leisten 2. insbesondere 3. jemandem bei einem Duell zur Seite stehen 4. jemanden bei einem sportlichen Wettkampf beraten (zum Beispiel Schach)
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 sekundieren
- sekundiert present singular third-person
- sekundierte past
- haben auxiliary
- sekundierend participle present
- sekundiere first-person indicative present
- sekundierst indicative present second-person
- sekundierest second-person singular subjunctive
- sekundieret plural second-person subjunctive
- sekundierten first-person indicative plural
- sekundiertest indicative preterite second-person
- sekundiertet indicative plural preterite
- sekundier imperative second-person singular
- habe sekundiert first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben sekundiert first-person indicative multiword-construction
- sekundiere! imperative singular
- sekundier! imperative singular
- sekundiert! imperative plural
- sekundiert haben active infinitive perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is sekundieren in German?
sekundieren appears about once in every 21 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).