decken
German, verb
decken is spelled D-E-C-K-E-N (6 letters) and appears 19 times per million words in written German, the 4,201st most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Decken is a German verb meaning “to cover (a roof, with a blanket, etc.)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Decken is a different word: “plural of Decke”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “(Dach) mit der wasserabweisenden Außenschicht versehen”.
What does decken mean in English?
verb
- 1
to cover (a roof, with a blanket, etc.)
Tischlein deck dich
- 2
to cover (e.g. a demand, a loss; but not “to provide news coverage”)
- 3
to cover (a female animal)
- 4
to lay or set (the table)
- 5
to mark
- 6
to be congruent, to coincide
- 7
to protect, to guard
noun
- 1
plural of Decke
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. (Dach) mit der wasserabweisenden Außenschicht versehen 2. (Tisch) mit Tischdecke (oder auch nicht), Geschirr und Besteck fürs Essen vorbereiten 3. bedecken, zudecken 4. (von Landschaftselementen) vor feindlichen Blicken und Angriffen schützen
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 decken
- deckt present singular third-person
- deckte past
- gedeckt participle past
- haben auxiliary
- deckend participle present
- decke first-person indicative present
- deckst indicative present second-person
- deckest second-person singular subjunctive
- decket plural second-person subjunctive
- deckten first-person indicative plural
- decktest indicative preterite second-person
- decktet indicative plural preterite
- deck imperative second-person singular
- habe gedeckt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben gedeckt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- decke! imperative singular
- deck! imperative singular
- deckt! imperative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to decken
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is decken in German?
decken appears 19 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).