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operieren: operate — meaning and examples | JadoLearn

Dictionaryoperieren

Quality-approved learning entryVerbLevel B1

operieren

operate

to operate on someone or perform surgery

IPA/opeˈʁiːʁən/

The main stress falls on the third syllable -rie-.

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Meaning 1neutral · 88%

to operate on someone or perform surgery

Natural examples

Der Chirurg operiert den Patienten heute Nachmittag.

Sie wird morgen am Knie operiert.

Der Arzt operiert mehrmals pro Woche.

Usage note

Say jemanden operieren for the patient and jemanden an + dative operieren for the body part, for example am Knie operieren.

Mini-lesson: Perform surgery

operieren — operate — operieren: operate

Operieren is the medical verb for performing an operation on a patient.

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Form and grammar

infinitive: operieren
third person present: operiert
preterite: operierte
Past participle: operiert
auxiliary: haben
Separable: No
prefix: —
reflexive: No
modal: No
imperative du: operiere
imperative ihr: operiert
imperative sie: operieren Sie
Transitivity: transitive · intransitive
valency patterns: jemanden (Akk.) operieren · an + Dat. operieren

In this entry, operieren means to perform surgery or operate on a patient. It can be used transitively with a patient or with an + dative for a body part.

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