rasten
German, verb
rasten is a German verb meaning “to rest” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first/third-person plural preterite of rasen. With a capital, Rasten is a different word: “plural of Rast”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “sich ausruhen, (bei körperlicher Anstrengung) eine Pause einlegen”.
What does rasten mean in English?
verb
- 1
to rest
verb
- 1
first/third-person plural preterite
- 2
first/third-person plural subjunctive II
noun
- 1
feminineplural of Rast
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. sich ausruhen, (bei körperlicher Anstrengung) eine Pause einlegen 2. an eine vorgesehene Position springen und dort durch einen Sperrmechanismus gehalten werden
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 rasten
- rastet present singular third-person
- rastete past
- gerastet participle past
- haben auxiliary
- rastend participle present
- raste first-person indicative present
- rastest indicative present second-person
- rasteten first-person indicative plural
- rastetest indicative preterite second-person
- rastetet indicative plural preterite
- rast imperative second-person singular
- habe gerastet first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben gerastet first-person indicative multiword-construction
- rast! imperative singular
- raste! imperative singular
- rastet! imperative plural
- gerastet haben auxiliary active infinitive
- zu rasten auxiliary active extended
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to rasten
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is rasten in German?
rasten appears 1.8 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).