schulen
German, verb
schulen is a German verb meaning “to school” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Schulen is a different word: “plural of Schule”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “jemanden in einer Sache unterrichten, trainieren”.
What does schulen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to school
noun
- 1
plural of Schule
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. jemanden in einer Sache unterrichten, trainieren 2. etwas verbessern
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 schulen
- schult present singular third-person
- schulte past
- geschult participle past
- haben auxiliary
- schulend participle present
- schule first-person indicative present
- schulst indicative present second-person
- schulest second-person singular subjunctive
- schulet plural second-person subjunctive
- schulten first-person indicative plural
- schultest indicative preterite second-person
- schultet indicative plural preterite
- schul imperative second-person singular
- habe geschult first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben geschult first-person indicative multiword-construction
- schule! imperative singular
- schult! imperative plural
- geschult haben active infinitive perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to schulen
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is schulen in German?
schulen appears 63 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).