abspannen
German, verb
abspannen is spelled A-B-S-P-A-N-N-E-N (9 letters) and appears about once in every 26 million words in written German, the 293,729th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Abspannen is a German verb meaning “to wind down” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Abspannen is a different word: “dative plural of Abspann”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “Zugtiere vom Fahrzeug trennen”.
What does abspannen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to wind down
noun
- 1
dative plural of Abspann
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Zugtiere vom Fahrzeug trennen 2. sich eine Zeit der Erholung gönnen 3. mit gestrafften Seilen in vertikaler Lage fixieren 4. eine Person aus der Beziehung zu anderen lösen
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 abspannen
- spannt ab present singular third-person
- spannte ab past
- abgespannt participle past
- haben auxiliary
- abspannend participle present
- abzuspannen infinitive infinitive-zu
- spanne ab first-person indicative present
- spannen ab first-person indicative plural
- spannst ab indicative present second-person
- spannest ab second-person singular subjunctive
- spannet ab plural second-person subjunctive
- spannten ab first-person indicative plural
- spanntest ab indicative preterite second-person
- spanntet ab indicative plural preterite
- spann ab! imperative singular
- spanne ab! imperative singular
- spannt ab! imperative plural
- abgespannt haben active infinitive perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to abspannen
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is abspannen in German?
abspannen appears about once in every 26 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).