papieren
German, adjective
papieren is a German adjective meaning “paper (made of paper)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Papieren is a different word: “dative plural of Papier”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “aus Papier bestehend”.
What does papieren mean in English?
adjective
- 1
paper (made of paper)
- 2
dry, wooden, dull
noun
- 1
neuterdative plural of Papier
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. aus Papier bestehend 2. wie Papier wirkend 3. arm an Abwechslung, sehr sachlich, trocken 4. auf Papier geschrieben
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 papieren
- papierener masculine nominative singular
- papierner masculine nominative singular
- papierene feminine nominative singular
- papierne feminine nominative singular
- papierenes neuter nominative singular
- papiernes neuter nominative singular
- papierenen genitive masculine singular
- papiernen genitive masculine singular
- papierenem dative masculine singular
- papiernem dative masculine singular
- papiern variant
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is papieren in German?
papieren appears 2.5 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).