blechen
German, verb
blechen is spelled B-L-E-C-H-E-N (7 letters) and appears 1.3 times per million words in written German, the 31,999th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Blechen is a German verb meaning “to cough up, to fork out, hand over (i.e. money)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Blechen is a different word: “dative plural of Blech”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “(widerwillig) für etwas mit Geld bezahlen”.
What does blechen mean in English?
verb
- 1
colloquialto cough up, to fork out, hand over (i.e. money)
noun
- 1
neuterdative plural of Blech
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. (widerwillig) für etwas mit Geld bezahlen
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 blechen
- blecht present singular third-person
- blechte past
- geblecht participle past
- haben auxiliary
- blechend participle present
- bleche first-person indicative present
- blechst indicative present second-person
- blechest second-person singular subjunctive
- blechet plural second-person subjunctive
- blechten first-person indicative plural
- blechtest indicative preterite second-person
- blechtet indicative plural preterite
- blech imperative second-person singular
- habe geblecht first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben geblecht first-person indicative multiword-construction
- blech! imperative singular
- blecht! imperative plural
- geblecht haben active infinitive perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is blechen in German?
blechen appears 1.3 times per million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).