weinen
German, verb
weinen is spelled W-E-I-N-E-N (6 letters) and appears 21 times per million words in written German, the 3,812th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Weinen is a German verb meaning “to weep, cry” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Weinen is a different word: “dative plural of Wein”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “Tränen vergießen”.
What does weinen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to weep, cry
noun
- 1
dative plural of Wein
noun
- 1
neutergerund of weinen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Tränen vergießen
noun: 1. das Vergießen von Tränen
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 weinen
- weint present singular third-person
- weinte past
- geweint participle past
- haben auxiliary
- weinend participle present
- weine first-person indicative present
- weinst indicative present second-person
- weinest second-person singular subjunctive
- weinet plural second-person subjunctive
- weinten first-person indicative plural
- weintest indicative preterite second-person
- weintet indicative plural preterite
- wein imperative second-person singular
- habe geweint first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben geweint first-person indicative multiword-construction
- weine! imperative singular
- weint! imperative plural
- geweint haben active infinitive perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to weinen
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is weinen in German?
weinen appears 21 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).