fälschen
German, verb
fälschen is spelled F-Ä-L-S-C-H-E-N (8 letters) and appears 39 times per million words in written German, the 2,154th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Fälschen is a German verb meaning “to counterfeit, to forge” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). Without its umlaut, falschen is a different word: “Inflected form of falsch”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “in betrügerischer Absicht etwas herstellen, das wirken soll, als hätte es einen anderen Urheber”.
What does fälschen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to counterfeit, to forge
adjective
- 1
Inflected form of falsch
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. in betrügerischer Absicht etwas herstellen, das wirken soll, als hätte es einen anderen Urheber
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 fälschen
- fälscht present singular third-person
- fälschte past
- gefälscht participle past
- haben auxiliary
- fälschend participle present
- fälsche first-person indicative present
- fälschst indicative present second-person
- fälschest second-person singular subjunctive
- fälschet plural second-person subjunctive
- fälschten first-person indicative plural
- fälschtest indicative preterite second-person
- fälschtet indicative plural preterite
- fälsch imperative second-person singular
- habe gefälscht first-person indicative multiword-construction
- fälsche! imperative singular
- fälscht! imperative plural
- gefälscht haben active infinitive perfect
- zu fälschen active extended infinitive
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to fälschen
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is fälschen in German?
fälschen appears 39 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).