tropfen
German, verb
tropfen is a German verb meaning “to drop, drip” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Tropfen is a different word: “drop”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “Tropfen fallen lassen”.
What does tropfen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to drop, drip
- 2
to leak (said of a faucet)
noun
- 1
masculinedrop
noun
- 1
neutergerund of tropfen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. kleine, kompakte Menge Flüssigkeit; flüssiger Körper mit geschlossener Phasengrenzfläche 2. flüssige Medizin, die zur Anwendung auf die zu behandelnde Stelle geträufelt wird 3. Wein
noun: 1. das Fallen von Tropfen
verb: 1. Tropfen fallen lassen
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 tropfen
- Tropfens genitive
- Tröpfchen diminutive neuter
- Tröpflein diminutive neuter
- Tropferl diminutive neuter
- tropft present singular third-person
- tropfte past
- getropft participle past
- haben auxiliary
- tropfend participle present
- tropfe first-person indicative present
- tropfst indicative present second-person
- tropfest second-person singular subjunctive
- tropfet plural second-person subjunctive
- tropften first-person indicative plural
- tropftest indicative preterite second-person
- tropftet indicative plural preterite
- tropfe! imperative singular
- tropf! imperative singular
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to tropfen
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is tropfen in German?
tropfen appears 14 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).