eschen
German, adjective
eschen is spelled E-S-C-H-E-N (6 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written German, the 43,786th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Eschen is a German adjective meaning “ash (wood)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Eschen is a different word: “plural of Esche”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “aus Eschenholz bestehend oder gemacht”.
What does eschen mean in English?
adjective
- 1
ash (wood)
noun
- 1
feminineplural of Esche
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. aus Eschenholz bestehend oder gemacht
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 eschen
- eschener masculine nominative singular
- eschene feminine nominative singular
- eschenes neuter nominative singular
- eschenen genitive masculine singular
- eschenem dative masculine singular
- der eschene definite includes-article masculine
- die eschene definite feminine includes-article
- das eschene definite includes-article neuter
- die eschenen definite includes-article nominative
- des eschenen definite genitive includes-article
- der eschenen definite feminine genitive
- dem eschenen dative definite includes-article
- den eschenen dative definite includes-article
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to eschen
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is eschen in German?
eschen appears about once in every 1 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).