anlangen
German, verb
anlangen is spelled A-N-L-A-N-G-E-N (8 letters) and appears about once in every 21 million words in written German, the 261,124th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Anlangen is a German verb meaning “to touch (literally)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Anlangen is a different word: “gerund of anlangen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “zu einem Ort, einer Stelle gelangen”.
What does anlangen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to touch (literally)
- 2
to arrive
- 3
to concern, to touch
noun
- 1
neutergerund of anlangen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. zu einem Ort, einer Stelle gelangen 2. etwas oder jemanden anlangen: betreffen 3. etwas anfassen, auch speziell unsittlich berühren
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 anlangen
- langt an present singular third-person
- langte an past
- angelangt participle past
- haben auxiliary
- sein auxiliary
- haben or sein auxiliary
- anlangend participle present
- anzulangen infinitive infinitive-zu
- lange an first-person indicative present
- langen an first-person indicative plural
- langst an indicative present second-person
- langest an second-person singular subjunctive
- langet an plural second-person subjunctive
- langten an first-person indicative plural
- langtest an indicative preterite second-person
- langtet an indicative plural preterite
- lang an! imperative singular
- lange an! imperative singular
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is anlangen in German?
anlangen appears about once in every 21 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).