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zielen

German, verb

zielen is spelled Z-I-E-L-E-N (6 letters) and appears 12 times per million words in written German, the 5,929th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Zielen is a German verb meaning “to aim at a physical target” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Zielen is a different word: “dative plural of Ziel”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “etwas, oft eine Waffe, auf etwas ausrichten”.

What does zielen mean in English?

verb

  1. 1

    to aim at a physical target

  2. 2

    to aim at a goal

noun

as Zielen
  1. 1

    neuterdative plural of Ziel

noun

as Zielen
  1. 1

    neutergerund of zielen

Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How German dictionaries define it

verb: 1. etwas, oft eine Waffe, auf etwas ausrichten 2. eine bestimmte Absicht haben

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 zielen

  • zielt present singular third-person
  • zielte past
  • gezielt participle past
  • haben auxiliary
  • zielend participle present
  • ziele first-person indicative present
  • zielst indicative present second-person
  • zielest second-person singular subjunctive
  • zielet plural second-person subjunctive
  • zielten first-person indicative plural
  • zieltest indicative preterite second-person
  • zieltet indicative plural preterite
  • ziel imperative second-person singular
  • habe gezielt first-person indicative multiword-construction
  • haben gezielt first-person indicative multiword-construction
  • ziele! imperative singular
  • zielt! imperative plural
  • gezielt haben active infinitive perfect

Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

English words that translate to zielen

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is zielen in German?

zielen appears 12 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).

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