ankern
German, verb
ankern is spelled A-N-K-E-R-N (6 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written German, the 65,066th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Ankern is a German verb meaning “to anchor” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Ankern is a different word: “gerund of ankern”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “den Anker auswerfen”.
What does ankern mean in English?
verb
- 1
to anchor
noun
- 1
neutergerund of ankern
noun
- 1
masculinedative plural of Anker
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. den Anker auswerfen 2. mit einem Anker an einem bestimmten Ort festgemacht sein
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 ankern
- ankert present singular third-person
- ankerte past
- geankert participle past
- haben auxiliary
- ankernd participle present
- ankre first-person indicative present
- ankere first-person indicative present
- anker first-person indicative present
- ankerst indicative present second-person
- ankerest second-person singular subjunctive
- ankrest second-person singular subjunctive
- ankeret plural second-person subjunctive
- ankret plural second-person subjunctive
- ankerten first-person indicative plural
- ankertest indicative preterite second-person
- ankertet indicative plural preterite
- ankere! imperative singular
- ankert! imperative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to ankern
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is ankern in German?
ankern appears about once in every 2 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).