vegetieren
German, verb
vegetieren is spelled V-E-G-E-T-I-E-R-E-N (10 letters) and appears about once in every 5 million words in written German, the 115,169th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Vegetieren is a German verb meaning “to vegetate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Vegetieren is a different word: “gerund of vegetieren”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “auf einer niedrigen Stufe (der Lebensqualität) leben”.
What does vegetieren mean in English?
verb
- 1
to vegetate
noun
- 1
neutergerund of vegetieren
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. auf einer niedrigen Stufe (der Lebensqualität) leben
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 vegetieren
- vegetiert present singular third-person
- vegetierte past
- haben auxiliary
- vegetierend participle present
- vegetiere first-person indicative present
- vegetierst indicative present second-person
- vegetierest second-person singular subjunctive
- vegetieret plural second-person subjunctive
- vegetierten first-person indicative plural
- vegetiertest indicative preterite second-person
- vegetiertet indicative plural preterite
- vegetier imperative second-person singular
- habe vegetiert first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben vegetiert first-person indicative multiword-construction
- vegetier! imperative singular
- vegetiere! imperative singular
- vegetiert! imperative plural
- vegetiert haben active infinitive perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to vegetieren
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is vegetieren in German?
vegetieren appears about once in every 5 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).