ventilieren
German, verb
ventilieren is spelled V-E-N-T-I-L-I-E-R-E-N (11 letters) and appears about once in every 37 million words in written German, the 362,108th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Ventilieren is a German verb meaning “to ventilate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Ventilieren is a different word: “gerund of ventilieren”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “die Luft bewegen oder erneuern; etwas mit Frischluft versorgen”.
What does ventilieren mean in English?
verb
- 1
to ventilate
- 2
to consider carefully, to ponder
noun
- 1
neutergerund of ventilieren
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. die Luft bewegen oder erneuern; etwas mit Frischluft versorgen 2. über etwas genau nachdenken
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 ventilieren
- ventiliert present singular third-person
- ventilierte past
- haben auxiliary
- ventilierend participle present
- ventiliere first-person indicative present
- ventilierst indicative present second-person
- ventilierest second-person singular subjunctive
- ventilieret plural second-person subjunctive
- ventilierten first-person indicative plural
- ventiliertest indicative preterite second-person
- ventiliertet indicative plural preterite
- ventilier imperative second-person singular
- habe ventiliert first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben ventiliert first-person indicative multiword-construction
- ventiliere! imperative singular
- ventilier! imperative singular
- ventiliert! imperative plural
- ventiliert haben active infinitive perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to ventilieren
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is ventilieren in German?
ventilieren appears about once in every 37 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).