basten
German, adjective
basten is spelled B-A-S-T-E-N (6 letters) and appears about once in every 6 million words in written German, the 120,168th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Basten is a German adjective meaning “bast; made of bast” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Basten is a different word: “dative plural of Bast”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “aus Bast¹ gemacht”.
What does basten mean in English?
adjective
- 1
bast; made of bast
noun
- 1
masculinedative plural of Bast
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. aus Bast¹ gemacht
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 basten
- bastener masculine nominative singular
- bastene feminine nominative singular
- bastenes neuter nominative singular
- bastenen genitive masculine singular
- bastenem dative masculine singular
- der bastene definite includes-article masculine
- die bastene definite feminine includes-article
- das bastene definite includes-article neuter
- die bastenen definite includes-article nominative
- des bastenen definite genitive includes-article
- der bastenen definite feminine genitive
- dem bastenen dative definite includes-article
- den bastenen dative definite includes-article
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is basten in German?
basten 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).