tangieren
German, verb
tangieren is spelled T-A-N-G-I-E-R-E-N (9 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written German, the 77,779th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Tangieren is a German verb meaning “to be tangent to” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Tangieren is a different word: “gerund of tangieren”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “(am Rande, oberflächlich) angehen, berühren, betreffen im übertragenen Sinn, es kümmert einen”.
What does tangieren mean in English?
verb
- 1
to be tangent to
- 2
to bother
- 3
to touch on
noun
- 1
neutergerund of tangieren
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. (am Rande, oberflächlich) angehen, berühren, betreffen im übertragenen Sinn, es kümmert einen 2. in einem Punkt berühren 3. (mit den Händen) berühren 4. ein Rastermuster auf eine Flachdruckplatte anbringen
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 tangieren
- tangiert present singular third-person
- tangierte past
- haben auxiliary
- tangierend participle present
- tangiere first-person indicative present
- tangierst indicative present second-person
- tangierest second-person singular subjunctive
- tangieret plural second-person subjunctive
- tangierten first-person indicative plural
- tangiertest indicative preterite second-person
- tangiertet indicative plural preterite
- tangier imperative second-person singular
- habe tangiert first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben tangiert first-person indicative multiword-construction
- tangier! imperative singular
- tangiere! imperative singular
- tangiert! imperative plural
- tangiert haben active infinitive perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is tangieren in German?
tangieren 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).