gründen
German, verb
gründen is a German verb meaning “to found, to establish (a community, settlement, organization, company, etc.)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Gründen is a different word: “gerund of gründen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “eine Institution, eine Organisation einrichten”.
What does gründen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to found, to establish (a community, settlement, organization, company, etc.)
Near-synonyms: bilden, stiften, begründen
- 2
to form (intransitively), to be founded
Der Verein hat sich 1990 gegründet.
- 3
to be based on, to build on (of a plan, achievement, ideology, etc.)
noun
- 1
neutergerund of gründen
noun
- 1
masculinedative plural of Grund
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. eine Institution, eine Organisation einrichten 2. für ein Bauwerk das Fundament herstellen 3. von bestimmten Voraussetzungen, Bedingungen ausgehen
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 gründen
- gründet present singular third-person
- gründete past
- gegründet participle past
- haben auxiliary
- gründend participle present
- gründe first-person indicative present
- gründest indicative present second-person
- gründeten first-person indicative plural
- gründetest indicative preterite second-person
- gründetet indicative plural preterite
- gründ imperative second-person singular
- habe gegründet first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben gegründet first-person indicative multiword-construction
- gründ! imperative singular
- gründe! imperative singular
- gründet! imperative plural
- gegründet haben active infinitive perfect
- gegründet werden processual-passive infinitive present
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to gründen
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is gründen in German?
gründen appears 79 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).