entlauben
German, verb
entlauben is spelled E-N-T-L-A-U-B-E-N (9 letters) and appears about once in every 79 million words in written German, the 557,474th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Entlauben is a German verb meaning “to defoliate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Entlauben is a different word: “gerund of entlauben”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “von Laub befreien”.
What does entlauben mean in English?
verb
- 1
to defoliate
noun
- 1
neutergerund of entlauben
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. von Laub befreien
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 entlauben
- entlaubt present singular third-person
- entlaubte past
- haben auxiliary
- entlaubend participle present
- entlaube first-person indicative present
- entlaubst indicative present second-person
- entlaubest second-person singular subjunctive
- entlaubet plural second-person subjunctive
- entlaubten first-person indicative plural
- entlaubtest indicative preterite second-person
- entlaubtet indicative plural preterite
- entlaub imperative second-person singular
- habe entlaubt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben entlaubt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- entlaube! imperative singular
- entlaubt! imperative plural
- entlaubt haben active infinitive perfect
- entlaubt werden processual-passive infinitive present
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to entlauben
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is entlauben in German?
entlauben appears about once in every 79 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).