tasten
German, verb
tasten is a German verb meaning “to feel with the hands, to fumble, to grope” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Tasten is a different word: “gerund of tasten”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “versuchen, die Gegenstände seiner Umgebung durch Berühren wahrzunehmen”.
What does tasten mean in English?
verb
- 1
to feel with the hands, to fumble, to grope
noun
- 1
neutergerund of tasten
noun
- 1
plural of Taste
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. versuchen, die Gegenstände seiner Umgebung durch Berühren wahrzunehmen
noun: 1. Versuch der Wahrnehmung von Gegenständen in der Umgebung durch Berührung
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 tasten
- tastet present singular third-person
- tastete past
- getastet participle past
- haben auxiliary
- tastend participle present
- taste first-person indicative present
- tastest indicative present second-person
- tasteten first-person indicative plural
- tastetest indicative preterite second-person
- tastetet indicative plural preterite
- tast imperative second-person singular
- habe getastet first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben getastet first-person indicative multiword-construction
- tast! imperative singular
- taste! imperative singular
- tastet! imperative plural
- getastet haben active infinitive perfect
- zu tasten active extended infinitive
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to tasten
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is tasten in German?
tasten appears 4.3 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).