zitieren
German, verb
zitieren is spelled Z-I-T-I-E-R-E-N (8 letters) and appears 5.0 times per million words in written German, the 12,256th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Zitieren is a German verb meaning “to cite, to quote” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Zitieren is a different word: “gerund of zitieren”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “jemandes geschriebene oder gesprochene Worte exakt wiedergeben; Texte aus einem Werk verwenden”.
What does zitieren mean in English?
verb
- 1
to cite, to quote
noun
- 1
neutergerund of zitieren
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. jemandes geschriebene oder gesprochene Worte exakt wiedergeben; Texte aus einem Werk verwenden 2. jemanden vor ein Gericht, Amt, einen Ausschuss oder eine sonstige Autorität laden
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 zitieren
- zitiert present singular third-person
- zitierte past
- haben auxiliary
- zitierend participle present
- zitiere first-person indicative present
- zitierst indicative present second-person
- zitierest second-person singular subjunctive
- zitieret plural second-person subjunctive
- zitierten first-person indicative plural
- zitiertest indicative preterite second-person
- zitiertet indicative plural preterite
- zitier imperative second-person singular
- habe zitiert first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben zitiert first-person indicative multiword-construction
- zit. abbreviation
- zitier! imperative singular
- zitiere! imperative singular
- zitiert! imperative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to zitieren
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is zitieren in German?
zitieren appears 5.0 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).