trainieren
German, verb
trainieren is spelled T-R-A-I-N-I-E-R-E-N (10 letters) and appears 14 times per million words in written German, the 5,262nd most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Trainieren is a German verb meaning “to work out, to exercise, to train” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Trainieren is a different word: “gerund of trainieren”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “mithilfe gezielten Übens seine (zum Beispiel körperliche oder geistige) Leistungsfähigkeit erhöhen, häufig…”.
What does trainieren mean in English?
verb
- 1
to work out, to exercise, to train
Ich trainiere für einen Marathon.
- 2
to train, to coach
noun
- 1
neutergerund of trainieren
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. mithilfe gezielten Übens seine (zum Beispiel körperliche oder geistige) Leistungsfähigkeit erhöhen, häufig vor Antreten eines Wettbewerbs
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 trainieren
- trainiert present singular third-person
- trainierte past
- haben auxiliary
- trainierend participle present
- trainiere first-person indicative present
- trainierst indicative present second-person
- trainierest second-person singular subjunctive
- trainieret plural second-person subjunctive
- trainierten first-person indicative plural
- trainiertest indicative preterite second-person
- trainiertet indicative plural preterite
- trainier imperative second-person singular
- habe trainiert first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben trainiert first-person indicative multiword-construction
- trainier! imperative singular
- trainiere! imperative singular
- trainiert! imperative plural
- trainiert haben active infinitive perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to trainieren
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is trainieren in German?
trainieren appears 14 times per million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).