substituieren
German, verb[zʊpstituˈiːʁən]
substituieren is spelled S-U-B-S-T-I-T-U-I-E-R-E-N (13 letters) and appears about once in every 7 million words in written German, the 140,468th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Substituieren is a German verb meaning “to substitute” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “austauschen, ersetzen”.
What does substituieren mean in English?
verb
- 1
to substitute
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. austauschen, ersetzen
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 substituieren
- substituiert present singular third-person
- substituierte past
- haben auxiliary
- substituierend participle present
- substituiere first-person indicative present
- substituierst indicative present second-person
- substituierest second-person singular subjunctive
- substituieret plural second-person subjunctive
- substituierten first-person indicative plural
- substituiertest indicative preterite second-person
- substituiertet indicative plural preterite
- substituier imperative second-person singular
- habe substituiert first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben substituiert first-person indicative multiword-construction
- substituier! imperative singular
- substituiere! imperative singular
- substituiert! imperative plural
- substituiert haben active infinitive perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce substituieren?
- [zʊpstituˈiːʁən]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is substituieren in German?
substituieren appears about once in every 7 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).