ablenken
German, verb
ablenken is spelled A-B-L-E-N-K-E-N (8 letters) and appears 5.1 times per million words in written German, the 12,050th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Ablenken is a German verb meaning “to divert” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Ablenken is a different word: “gerund of ablenken”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “die Aufmerksamkeit auf etwas anderes lenken”.
What does ablenken mean in English?
verb
- 1
to divert
- 2
to distract
noun
- 1
neutergerund of ablenken
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. die Aufmerksamkeit auf etwas anderes lenken 2. etwas von seiner ursprünglichen Richtung abbringen und in eine andere lenken
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 ablenken
- lenkt ab present singular third-person
- lenkte ab past
- abgelenkt participle past
- haben auxiliary
- ablenkend participle present
- abzulenken infinitive infinitive-zu
- lenke ab first-person indicative present
- lenken ab first-person indicative plural
- lenkst ab indicative present second-person
- lenkest ab second-person singular subjunctive
- lenket ab plural second-person subjunctive
- lenkten ab first-person indicative plural
- lenktest ab indicative preterite second-person
- lenktet ab indicative plural preterite
- lenk ab! imperative singular
- lenkt ab! imperative plural
- abgelenkt haben active infinitive perfect
- abgelenkt werden processual-passive infinitive present
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to ablenken
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is ablenken in German?
ablenken appears 5.1 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).