German word

konzipieren

Pronunciation

IPA/kɔnt͡siˈpiːʁən/

Meaning

  • verbplan

Example

Wir konzipieren gerade eine neue Werbekampagne.

We are currently planning a new advertising campaign.

Illustration for konzipieren (plan)

More examples

Das Team konzipiert ein Konzeptpapier für das neue Projekt.

The team is developing a concept paper for the new project.

Core concept

The organizing concept that gives a campaign, product, or undertaking its shape.

Common phrases

  • ein Projekt konzipieren

    develop a project

  • eine Produktstrategie konzipieren

    develop a product strategy

  • ein Konzeptpapier konzipieren

    develop a concept paper

Similar words

planen: Organizing tasks, their sequence, and the preparations required for them.
entwickeln: Shaping an idea into a workable system, process, or set of functions.
entwerfen: Laying out the basic form or structure of a design.
ausarbeiten: Filling out an established plan with precise, usable details.

Definition in German

konzipieren bezeichnet das Entwickeln eines durchdachten Plans oder Konzepts für ein Vorhaben oder Produkt.

Word origin

The verb derives ultimately from Latin concipere and preserves the related idea of mentally grasping and forming something before it is realized.

Usage tips

  • Like other German verbs ending in -ieren, konzipieren forms its past participle as konzipiert, not gekonzipiert.

Other meanings

  • conceiveverb
  • designverb
  • deviseverb

Opposites

  • improvisierenimproviseverb

Related words

  • Konzeptionconceptualizationnoun
  • Neukonzeptionreconceptualizationnoun

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