anlächeln
German, verb
anlächeln is spelled A-N-L-Ä-C-H-E-L-N (9 letters) and appears about once in every 6 million words in written German, the 121,881st most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Anlächeln is a German verb meaning “to smile at” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Anlächeln is a different word: “gerund of anlächeln”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “jemanden ansehen und dabei lächeln”.
What does anlächeln mean in English?
verb
- 1
to smile at
noun
- 1
neutergerund of anlächeln
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. jemanden ansehen und dabei lächeln
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 anlächeln
- lächelt an present singular third-person
- lächelte an past
- angelächelt participle past
- haben auxiliary
- anlächelnd participle present
- anzulächeln infinitive infinitive-zu
- lächle an first-person indicative present
- lächele an first-person indicative present
- lächel an first-person indicative present
- lächeln an first-person indicative plural
- lächelst an indicative present second-person
- lächelest an second-person singular subjunctive
- lächlest an second-person singular subjunctive
- lächelet an plural second-person subjunctive
- lächlet an plural second-person subjunctive
- lächelten an first-person indicative plural
- lächeltest an indicative preterite second-person
- lächeltet an indicative plural preterite
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is anlächeln in German?
anlächeln appears about once in every 6 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).