docken
German, verb
docken is spelled D-O-C-K-E-N (6 letters) and appears about once in every 9 million words in written German, the 161,302nd most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Docken is a German verb meaning “to dock” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Docken is a different word: “nominative/genitive/dative/accusative plural of Docke”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “in einer Reparaturanlage (im Dock) liegen; in ein Dock legen”.
What does docken mean in English?
verb
- 1
to dock
noun
- 1
nominative/genitive/dative/accusative plural of Docke
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. in einer Reparaturanlage (im Dock) liegen; in ein Dock legen
verb: 1. in Bündel legen
verb: 1. mit einer Puppe spielen
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 docken
- dockt present singular third-person
- dockte past
- gedockt participle past
- haben auxiliary
- dockend participle present
- docke first-person indicative present
- dockst indicative present second-person
- dockest second-person singular subjunctive
- docket plural second-person subjunctive
- dockten first-person indicative plural
- docktest indicative preterite second-person
- docktet indicative plural preterite
- dock imperative second-person singular
- habe gedockt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben gedockt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- dock! imperative singular
- docke! imperative singular
- dockt! imperative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to docken
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is docken in German?
docken appears about once in every 9 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).