blicken
German, verb
blicken is spelled B-L-I-C-K-E-N (7 letters) and appears 15 times per million words in written German, the 5,079th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Blicken is a German verb meaning “to look (usually in a certain direction toward something)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Blicken is a different word: “dative plural of Blick”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “seinen Blick auf jemanden/etwas wenden und es bewusst wahrnehmen”.
What does blicken mean in English?
verb
- 1
to look (usually in a certain direction toward something)
Blick aus dem Fenster.
- 2
colloquialto get, to understand
Du blickst es einfach nicht.
noun
- 1
masculinedative plural of Blick
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. seinen Blick auf jemanden/etwas wenden und es bewusst wahrnehmen 2. kapieren, etwas verstehen
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 blicken
- blickt present singular third-person
- blickte past
- geblickt participle past
- haben auxiliary
- blickend participle present
- blicke first-person indicative present
- blickst indicative present second-person
- blickest second-person singular subjunctive
- blicket plural second-person subjunctive
- blickten first-person indicative plural
- blicktest indicative preterite second-person
- blicktet indicative plural preterite
- blick imperative second-person singular
- habe geblickt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben geblickt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- blicke! imperative singular
- blick! imperative singular
- blickt! imperative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to blicken
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is blicken in German?
blicken appears 15 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).