kühlen
German, verb
kühlen is a German verb meaning “to cool, to refrigerate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Kühlen is a different word: “gerund of kühlen: cooling”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “kühl machen; Temperatur (von etwas, das warm oder heiß ist) vermindern”.
What does kühlen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to cool, to refrigerate
Ich kühlte den Kopf des Patienten mit Eis.
noun
- 1
neutergerund of kühlen: cooling
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. kühl machen; Temperatur (von etwas, das warm oder heiß ist) vermindern
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 kühlen
- kühlt present singular third-person
- kühlte past
- gekühlt participle past
- haben auxiliary
- kühlend participle present
- kühle first-person indicative present
- kühlst indicative present second-person
- kühlest second-person singular subjunctive
- kühlet plural second-person subjunctive
- kühlten first-person indicative plural
- kühltest indicative preterite second-person
- kühltet indicative plural preterite
- kühl imperative second-person singular
- habe gekühlt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben gekühlt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- kühl! imperative singular
- kühle! imperative singular
- kühlt! imperative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to kühlen
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is kühlen in German?
kühlen appears 6.5 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).