balzen
German, verb
balzen is spelled B-A-L-Z-E-N (6 letters) and appears about once in every 13 million words in written German, the 202,985th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Balzen is a German verb meaning “to perform a courtship display” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Balzen is a different word: “plural of Balz”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “einen Partner zur Paarung suchen und durch besonderes Verhalten anlocken”.
What does balzen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to perform a courtship display
noun
- 1
feminineplural of Balz
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. einen Partner zur Paarung suchen und durch besonderes Verhalten anlocken 2. dem anderen Geschlecht Aufwartung machen
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 balzen
- balzt present singular third-person
- balzte past
- gebalzt participle past
- haben auxiliary
- balzend participle present
- balze first-person indicative present
- balzest second-person singular subjunctive
- balzet plural second-person subjunctive
- balzten first-person indicative plural
- balztest indicative preterite second-person
- balztet indicative plural preterite
- balz imperative second-person singular
- habe gebalzt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben gebalzt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- balz! imperative singular
- balze! imperative singular
- balzt! imperative plural
- gebalzt haben active infinitive perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is balzen in German?
balzen appears about once in every 13 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).