feien
German, verb/faɪ̯ən/
feien is spelled F-E-I-E-N (5 letters) and appears about once in every 33 million words in written German, the 339,062nd most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Feien is a German verb meaning “to protect, to shield” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “unangreifbar, unverwundbar, immun machen (insbesondere durch Feenkraft)”.
What does feien mean in English?
verb
- 1
to protect, to shield
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. unangreifbar, unverwundbar, immun machen (insbesondere durch Feenkraft)
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 feien
- feit present singular third-person
- feite past
- gefeit participle past
- haben auxiliary
- feiend participle present
- feie first-person indicative present
- feist indicative present second-person
- feiest second-person singular subjunctive
- feiet plural second-person subjunctive
- feiten first-person indicative plural
- feitest indicative preterite second-person
- feitet indicative plural preterite
- fei imperative second-person singular
- habe gefeit first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben gefeit first-person indicative multiword-construction
- fei! imperative singular
- feie! imperative singular
- feit! imperative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce feien?
- /faɪ̯ən/
- [ˈfaɪ̯ən]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is feien in German?
feien appears about once in every 33 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).