weiten
German, verb
weiten is spelled W-E-I-T-E-N (6 letters) and appears 17 times per million words in written German, the 4,505th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Weiten is a German verb meaning “to widen, to expand, to dilate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a strong genitive masculine/neuter singular of weit. With a capital, Weiten is a different word: “gerund of weiten”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “etwas in seiner Ausdehnung (Weite) vergrößern”.
What does weiten mean in English?
verb
- 1
to widen, to expand, to dilate
adjective
- 1
masculineneuterstrong genitive masculine/neuter singular
- 2
weak/mixed genitive/dative all-gender singular
- 3
masculinestrong/weak/mixed accusative masculine singular
- 4
strong dative plural
- 5
weak/mixed all-case plural
noun
- 1
neutergerund of weiten
noun
- 1
plural of Weite
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. etwas in seiner Ausdehnung (Weite) vergrößern 2. etwas vergrößert sich (von alleine) in seiner Ausdehnung
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 weiten
- weitet present singular third-person
- weitete past
- geweitet participle past
- haben auxiliary
- weitend participle present
- weite first-person indicative present
- weitest indicative present second-person
- weiteten first-person indicative plural
- weitetest indicative preterite second-person
- weitetet indicative plural preterite
- weit imperative second-person singular
- habe geweitet first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben geweitet first-person indicative multiword-construction
- weit! imperative singular
- weite! imperative singular
- weitet! imperative plural
- geweitet haben active infinitive perfect
- geweitet werden processual-passive infinitive present
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to weiten
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is weiten in German?
weiten appears 17 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).