faxen
German, verb
faxen is spelled F-A-X-E-N (5 letters) and appears 1.2 times per million words in written German, the 34,034th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Faxen is a German verb meaning “to fax” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Faxen is a different word: “dative plural of Fax”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “ein Fax versenden”.
What does faxen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to fax
noun
- 1
dative plural of Fax
noun
- 1
neutergerund of faxen
noun
- 1
plural of Faxe
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. ein Fax versenden
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 faxen
- faxt present singular third-person
- faxte past
- gefaxt participle past
- haben auxiliary
- faxend participle present
- faxe first-person indicative present
- faxest second-person singular subjunctive
- faxet plural second-person subjunctive
- faxten first-person indicative plural
- faxtest indicative preterite second-person
- faxtet indicative plural preterite
- fax imperative second-person singular
- habe gefaxt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben gefaxt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- fax! imperative singular
- faxe! imperative singular
- faxt! imperative plural
- gefaxt haben active infinitive perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to faxen
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is faxen in German?
faxen appears 1.2 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).