anschicken
German, verb
anschicken is spelled A-N-S-C-H-I-C-K-E-N (10 letters) and appears about once in every 23 million words in written German, the 274,993rd most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Anschicken is a German verb meaning “to get ready, to prepare to do something” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Anschicken is a different word: “gerund of anschicken”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “sich dazu bereit machen, etwas zu tun; im Begriff sein, etwas zu tun”.
What does anschicken mean in English?
verb
- 1
datedto get ready, to prepare to do something
noun
- 1
neutergerund of anschicken
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. sich dazu bereit machen, etwas zu tun; im Begriff sein, etwas zu tun
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 anschicken
- schickt an present singular third-person
- schickte an past
- angeschickt participle past
- haben auxiliary
- anschickend participle present
- anzuschicken infinitive infinitive-zu
- schicke an first-person indicative present
- schicken an first-person indicative plural
- schickst an indicative present second-person
- schickest an second-person singular subjunctive
- schicket an plural second-person subjunctive
- schickten an first-person indicative plural
- schicktest an indicative preterite second-person
- schicktet an indicative plural preterite
- schick an! imperative singular
- schicke an! imperative singular
- schickt an! imperative plural
- sich anschicken infinitive present not-extended
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is anschicken in German?
anschicken appears about once in every 23 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).