enden
German, verb
enden is spelled E-N-D-E-N (5 letters) and appears 25 times per million words in written German, the 3,246th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Enden is a German verb meaning “to end” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Enden is a different word: “plural of Ende”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “aufhören, am Ende sein, zu Ende kommen”.
What does enden mean in English?
verb
- 1
to end
Die Frist endete gestern um 22 Uhr.
noun
- 1
plural of Ende
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. aufhören, am Ende sein, zu Ende kommen 2. sein Leben verlieren 3. Linguistik: am Ende einer Spracheinheit vorkommen
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 enden
- endet present singular third-person
- endete past
- geendet participle past
- haben auxiliary
- endend participle present
- ende first-person indicative present
- endest indicative present second-person
- endeten first-person indicative plural
- endetest indicative preterite second-person
- endetet indicative plural preterite
- end imperative second-person singular
- habe geendet first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben geendet first-person indicative multiword-construction
- ende! imperative singular
- endet! imperative plural
- geendet haben active infinitive perfect
- zu enden active extended infinitive
- geendet zu haben active extended infinitive
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to enden
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is enden in German?
enden appears 25 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).