festdrücken
German, verb[ˈfɛstˌdʁʏkn̩]
festdrücken is spelled F-E-S-T-D-R-Ü-C-K-E-N (11 letters) and appears about once in every 68 million words in written German, the 508,518th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Festdrücken is a German verb meaning “to press down” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “gegen etwas Druck ausüben, um es irgendwo zu befestigen, dauerhaft festzumachen, eine feste Verbindung…”.
What does festdrücken mean in English?
verb
- 1
to press down
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. gegen etwas Druck ausüben, um es irgendwo zu befestigen, dauerhaft festzumachen, eine feste Verbindung herzustellen
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 festdrücken
- drückt fest present singular third-person
- drückte fest past
- festgedrückt participle past
- haben auxiliary
- festdrückend participle present
- festzudrücken infinitive infinitive-zu
- drücke fest first-person indicative present
- drücken fest first-person indicative plural
- drückst fest indicative present second-person
- drückest fest second-person singular subjunctive
- drücket fest plural second-person subjunctive
- drückten fest first-person indicative plural
- drücktest fest indicative preterite second-person
- drücktet fest indicative plural preterite
- drück fest! imperative singular
- drücke fest! imperative singular
- drückt fest! imperative plural
- festgedrückt haben active infinitive perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce festdrücken?
- [ˈfɛstˌdʁʏkn̩]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is festdrücken in German?
festdrücken appears about once in every 68 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).