zirkulieren
German, verb
zirkulieren is spelled Z-I-R-K-U-L-I-E-R-E-N (11 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written German, the 67,080th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Zirkulieren is a German verb meaning “to circulate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Zirkulieren is a different word: “gerund of zirkulieren”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “eine Kreisbewegung ausführen, sich in einem Kreislauf bewegen, auf einem vorgegebenen Weg immer wiederkehren”.
What does zirkulieren mean in English?
verb
- 1
to circulate
noun
- 1
neutergerund of zirkulieren
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. eine Kreisbewegung ausführen, sich in einem Kreislauf bewegen, auf einem vorgegebenen Weg immer wiederkehren 2. sich an vielen Orten verbreiten, in Umlauf kommen
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 zirkulieren
- zirkuliert present singular third-person
- zirkulierte past
- haben auxiliary
- zirkulierend participle present
- zirkuliere first-person indicative present
- zirkulierst indicative present second-person
- zirkulierest second-person singular subjunctive
- zirkulieret plural second-person subjunctive
- zirkulierten first-person indicative plural
- zirkuliertest indicative preterite second-person
- zirkuliertet indicative plural preterite
- zirkulier imperative second-person singular
- habe zirkuliert first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben zirkuliert first-person indicative multiword-construction
- zirkuliere! imperative singular
- zirkulier! imperative singular
- zirkuliert! imperative plural
- sein auxiliary perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to zirkulieren
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is zirkulieren in German?
zirkulieren 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).