wettern
German, verb
wettern is spelled W-E-T-T-E-R-N (7 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written German, the 56,856th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Wettern is a German verb meaning “to rail (against)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Wettern is a different word: “dative plural of Wetter”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “unbestimmte Wetterereignisse (oft Unwetter) geben”.
What does wettern mean in English?
verb
- 1
to rail (against)
Der Prediger wetterte von der Kanzel gegen Abtreibung und Homosexualität.
noun
- 1
neuterdative plural of Wetter
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. unbestimmte Wetterereignisse (oft Unwetter) geben 2. auf etwas fluchen oder schimpfen
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 wettern
- wettert present singular third-person
- wetterte past
- gewettert participle past
- haben auxiliary
- wetternd participle present
- wettre first-person indicative present
- wettere first-person indicative present
- wetter first-person indicative present
- wetterst indicative present second-person
- wetterest second-person singular subjunctive
- wettrest second-person singular subjunctive
- wetteret plural second-person subjunctive
- wettret plural second-person subjunctive
- wetterten first-person indicative plural
- wettertest indicative preterite second-person
- wettertet indicative plural preterite
- wettere! imperative singular
- wettert! imperative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to wettern
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is wettern in German?
wettern appears about once in every 2 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).