paaren
German, verb
paaren is a German verb meaning “to mate, to pair” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Paaren is a different word: “dative plural of Paar”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “den Geschlechtsakt ausüben, kopulieren (bei Tieren, bei Menschen: umgangssprachlich, abwertend)”.
What does paaren mean in English?
verb
- 1
to mate, to pair
noun
- 1
neuterdative plural of Paar
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. den Geschlechtsakt ausüben, kopulieren (bei Tieren, bei Menschen: umgangssprachlich, abwertend) 2. zu einem Paar zusammenstellen, zusammenführen, zusammenfügen (bei Dingen)
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 paaren
- paart present singular third-person
- paarte past
- gepaart participle past
- haben auxiliary
- paarend participle present
- paare first-person indicative present
- paarst indicative present second-person
- paarest second-person singular subjunctive
- paaret plural second-person subjunctive
- paarten first-person indicative plural
- paartest indicative preterite second-person
- paartet indicative plural preterite
- paar imperative second-person singular
- habe gepaart first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben gepaart first-person indicative multiword-construction
- paare! imperative singular
- paar! imperative singular
- paart! imperative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is paaren in German?
paaren appears 4.2 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).