tradieren
German, verb/tʁaˈdiːʁən/
tradieren is spelled T-R-A-D-I-E-R-E-N (9 letters) and appears about once in every 36 million words in written German, the 357,274th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Tradieren is a German verb meaning “to hand down” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “etwas (mündlich) überliefern, weitergeben, mündlich fortpflanzen”.
What does tradieren mean in English?
verb
- 1
to hand down
Der Brauch wurde über Generationen hinweg tradiert.
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. etwas (mündlich) überliefern, weitergeben, mündlich fortpflanzen
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 tradieren
- tradiert present singular third-person
- tradierte past
- haben auxiliary
- tradierend participle present
- tradiere first-person indicative present
- tradierst indicative present second-person
- tradierest second-person singular subjunctive
- tradieret plural second-person subjunctive
- tradierten first-person indicative plural
- tradiertest indicative preterite second-person
- tradiertet indicative plural preterite
- tradier imperative second-person singular
- habe tradiert first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben tradiert first-person indicative multiword-construction
- tradiere! imperative singular
- tradier! imperative singular
- tradiert! imperative plural
- tradiert haben active infinitive perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce tradieren?
- /tʁaˈdiːʁən/
- [tʁaˈdiːʁən]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is tradieren in German?
tradieren appears about once in every 36 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).