aasen
German, verb
aasen is spelled A-A-S-E-N (5 letters) and appears about once in every 11 million words in written German, the 177,389th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Aasen is a German verb meaning “to feed on carrion” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Aasen is a different word: “gerund of aasen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “Fell vom Fleisch reinigen”.
What does aasen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to feed on carrion
- 2
to waste or spoil something, to make a mess of (something)
noun
- 1
neutergerund of aasen
noun
- 1
dative plural of Aas
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Fell vom Fleisch reinigen 2. als Tier Nahrung zu sich nehmen und häufig diese dabei vergeuden 3. unnötig viel von etwas verbrauchen, allzu sorglos mit etwas umgehen
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 aasen
- aast present singular third-person
- aaste past
- geaast participle past
- haben auxiliary
- aasend participle present
- aase first-person indicative present
- aasest second-person singular subjunctive
- aaset plural second-person subjunctive
- aasten first-person indicative plural
- aastest indicative preterite second-person
- aastet indicative plural preterite
- aas imperative second-person singular
- habe geaast first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben geaast first-person indicative multiword-construction
- äsen variant
- aase! imperative singular
- aast! imperative plural
- geaast haben active infinitive perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is aasen in German?
aasen appears about once in every 11 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).