sinnieren
German, verb/ˌzɪˈniːʁən/
sinnieren is spelled S-I-N-N-I-E-R-E-N (9 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written German, the 88,766th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Sinnieren is a German verb meaning “to contemplate, to muse” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “über etwas grüblerisch nachdenken”.
What does sinnieren mean in English?
verb
- 1
to contemplate, to muse
über etwas sinnieren
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. über etwas grüblerisch nachdenken
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 sinnieren
- sinniert present singular third-person
- sinnierte past
- haben auxiliary
- sinnierend participle present
- sinniere first-person indicative present
- sinnierst indicative present second-person
- sinnierest second-person singular subjunctive
- sinnieret plural second-person subjunctive
- sinnierten first-person indicative plural
- sinniertest indicative preterite second-person
- sinniertet indicative plural preterite
- sinnier imperative second-person singular
- habe sinniert first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben sinniert first-person indicative multiword-construction
- sinnier! imperative singular
- sinniere! imperative singular
- sinniert! imperative plural
- sinniert haben active infinitive perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce sinnieren?
- /ˌzɪˈniːʁən/
- /ˌzɪˈniːʁn̩/
- [zɪˈniːʁən]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to sinnieren
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is sinnieren in German?
sinnieren appears about once in every 3 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).