entfärben
German, verb
entfärben is spelled E-N-T-F-Ä-R-B-E-N (9 letters) and appears about once in every 24 million words in written German, the 282,248th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Entfärben is a German verb meaning “to discolour or bleach” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Entfärben is a different word: “gerund of entfärben”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “mit Hilfe chemischer Prozesse Farbe herausziehen/entfernen”.
What does entfärben mean in English?
verb
- 1
to discolour or bleach
noun
- 1
neutergerund of entfärben
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. mit Hilfe chemischer Prozesse Farbe herausziehen/entfernen 2. langsam die Farbe, Färbung verlieren und immer blasser, farbloser werden
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 entfärben
- entfärbt present singular third-person
- entfärbte past
- haben auxiliary
- sein auxiliary
- haben or sein auxiliary
- entfärbend participle present
- entfärbe first-person indicative present
- entfärbst indicative present second-person
- entfärbest second-person singular subjunctive
- entfärbet plural second-person subjunctive
- entfärbten first-person indicative plural
- entfärbtest indicative preterite second-person
- entfärbtet indicative plural preterite
- entfärb imperative second-person singular
- entfärb! imperative singular
- entfärbe! imperative singular
- entfärbt! imperative plural
- entfärbt haben active infinitive perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is entfärben in German?
entfärben appears about once in every 24 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).