falten
German, verb
falten is spelled F-A-L-T-E-N (6 letters) and appears 5.9 times per million words in written German, the 10,826th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Falten is a German verb meaning “to fold” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Falten is a different word: “gerund of falten”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “umbiegen und zusammenlegen”.
What does falten mean in English?
verb
- 1
to fold
seine Hände falten
noun
- 1
neutergerund of falten
noun
- 1
feminineplural of Falte
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. umbiegen und zusammenlegen 2. verschränken
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 falten
- faltet present singular third-person
- faltete past
- gefaltet participle past
- gefalten participle past regional
- haben auxiliary
- faltend participle present
- falte first-person indicative present
- faltest indicative present second-person
- falteten first-person indicative plural
- faltetest indicative preterite second-person
- faltetet indicative plural preterite
- falt imperative second-person singular
- habe gefaltet first-person indicative multiword-construction
- falte! imperative singular
- falt! imperative singular
- faltet! imperative plural
- gefaltet haben active infinitive perfect
- gefaltet 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 falten
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is falten in German?
falten appears 5.9 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).