doppeln
German, verb
doppeln is spelled D-O-P-P-E-L-N (7 letters) and appears about once in every 5 million words in written German, the 108,721st most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Doppeln is a German verb meaning “to double” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Doppeln is a different word: “dative plural of Doppel”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “die Menge mal zwei nehmen”.
What does doppeln mean in English?
verb
- 1
to double
noun
- 1
neuterdative plural of Doppel
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. die Menge mal zwei nehmen 2. mit einer Sohle versehen 3. mit einem Doppelpass ausspielen 4. einen Gegenspieler mit zwei Verteidigern unter Druck setzen
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 doppeln
- doppelt present singular third-person
- doppelte past
- gedoppelt participle past
- haben auxiliary
- doppelnd participle present
- dopple first-person indicative present
- doppele first-person indicative present
- doppel first-person indicative present
- doppelst indicative present second-person
- doppelest second-person singular subjunctive
- dopplest second-person singular subjunctive
- doppelet plural second-person subjunctive
- dopplet plural second-person subjunctive
- doppelten first-person indicative plural
- doppeltest indicative preterite second-person
- doppeltet indicative plural preterite
- doppel! imperative singular
- doppele! imperative singular
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is doppeln in German?
doppeln appears about once in every 5 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).