fragen
German, verb
fragen is a German verb meaning “to ask” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Fragen is a different word: “plural of Frage "questions"”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “eine Auskunft erbitten, um eine Auskunft bitten, eine Frage stellen”.
What does fragen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to ask
Darf ich dich etwas fragen?
- 2
to ask for, to ask after
- 3
to wonder (literally, “to ask (oneself)”)
Ich frage mich, wer mir helfen kann.
noun
- 1
plural of Frage "questions"
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. eine Auskunft erbitten, um eine Auskunft bitten, eine Frage stellen 2. sich über etwas Gedanken machen
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 fragen
- fragt present singular third-person
- frägt colloquial dialectal present
- fragte past
- frug colloquial dialectal past
- gefragt participle past
- früge colloquial dialectal past
- haben auxiliary
- fragend participle present
- frage first-person indicative present
- fragst indicative present second-person
- frägst colloquial indicative present
- fragest second-person singular subjunctive
- fraget plural second-person subjunctive
- fragten first-person indicative plural
- frugen colloquial first-person indicative
- frügen colloquial first-person formal
- fragtest indicative preterite second-person
- frugst colloquial indicative preterite
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to fragen
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is fragen in German?
fragen appears 295 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).