tigern
German, verb
tigern is spelled T-I-G-E-R-N (6 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written German, the 76,606th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Tigern is a German verb meaning “to pace, walk back and forth like a caged animal, often nervously” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Tigern is a different word: “gerund of tigern”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “unruhig und nervös auf und ab laufen, eine bestimmte Strecke immer weiter verfolgen, weiterlaufen”.
What does tigern mean in English?
verb
- 1
to pace, walk back and forth like a caged animal, often nervously
- 2
to provide with pattern like that of a tiger’s skin, to stripe irregularly
noun
- 1
neutergerund of tigern
noun
- 1
masculinedative plural of Tiger
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. unruhig und nervös auf und ab laufen, eine bestimmte Strecke immer weiter verfolgen, weiterlaufen
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 tigern
- tigert present singular third-person
- tigerte past
- getigert participle past
- sein auxiliary
- haben auxiliary
- sein or haben auxiliary
- tigernd participle present
- tigre first-person indicative present
- tigere first-person indicative present
- tiger first-person indicative present
- tigerst indicative present second-person
- tigerest second-person singular subjunctive
- tigrest second-person singular subjunctive
- tigeret plural second-person subjunctive
- tigret plural second-person subjunctive
- tigerten first-person indicative plural
- tigertest indicative preterite second-person
- tigertet indicative plural preterite
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is tigern in German?
tigern 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).