transkribieren
German, verb
transkribieren is spelled T-R-A-N-S-K-R-I-B-I-E-R-E-N (14 letters) and appears about once in every 7 million words in written German, the 140,468th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Transkribieren is a German verb meaning “to transcribe (convert from speech to written text)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Transkribieren is a different word: “gerund of transkribieren”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “die lautgetreue Übertragung von gesprochener Sprache, Gesprächen oder Gebärden in eine schriftlich fixierte…”.
What does transkribieren mean in English?
verb
- 1
to transcribe (convert from speech to written text)
- 2
to transcribe; to transliterate (convert from one script to another)
noun
- 1
neutergerund of transkribieren
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. die lautgetreue Übertragung von gesprochener Sprache, Gesprächen oder Gebärden in eine schriftlich fixierte Form (beispielsweise Lautschrift) 2. die lautgetreue Übertragung eines Textes in ein anderes Alphabet
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 transkribieren
- transkribiert present singular third-person
- transkribierte past
- haben auxiliary
- transkribierend participle present
- transkribiere first-person indicative present
- transkribierst indicative present second-person
- transkribierest second-person singular subjunctive
- transkribieret plural second-person subjunctive
- transkribierten first-person indicative plural
- transkribiertest indicative preterite second-person
- transkribiertet indicative plural preterite
- transkribier imperative second-person singular
- habe transkribiert first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben transkribiert first-person indicative multiword-construction
- transkribiere! imperative singular
- transkribier! imperative singular
- transkribiert! imperative plural
- transkribiert haben active infinitive perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to transkribieren
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is transkribieren in German?
transkribieren 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).