festnageln
German, verb/ˈfɛstˌnaːɡəln/
festnageln is spelled F-E-S-T-N-A-G-E-L-N (10 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written German, the 77,779th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Festnageln is a German verb meaning “to nail, to nail down (to employ a nail as a fastener)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “Gegenstände durch Einschlagen von einem oder mehreren Nägeln dauerhaft verbinden”.
What does festnageln mean in English?
verb
- 1
to nail, to nail down (to employ a nail as a fastener)
wie festgenagelt
- 2
to pin down (to corner someone in order to get a firm answer)
- 3
to pigeonhole (to categorize something in a specific way, or associate it with a specific topic, to the exclusion of everything else)
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Gegenstände durch Einschlagen von einem oder mehreren Nägeln dauerhaft verbinden 2. jemanden anhalten 3. jemanden anhalten, ein gegebenes Versprechen einzuhalten oder bei einer einmal vertretenen Meinung zu bleiben 4. jemanden anhalten, ein bestimmtes Thema weiter zu behandeln
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 festnageln
- nagelt fest present singular third-person
- nagelte fest past
- festgenagelt participle past
- haben auxiliary
- festnagelnd participle present
- festzunageln infinitive infinitive-zu
- nagle fest first-person indicative present
- nagele fest first-person indicative present
- nagel fest first-person indicative present
- nageln fest first-person indicative plural
- nagelst fest indicative present second-person
- nagelest fest second-person singular subjunctive
- naglest fest second-person singular subjunctive
- nagelet fest plural second-person subjunctive
- naglet fest plural second-person subjunctive
- nagelten fest first-person indicative plural
- nageltest fest indicative preterite second-person
- nageltet fest indicative plural preterite
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce festnageln?
- /ˈfɛstˌnaːɡəln/
- [ˈfɛstˌnaːɡl̩n]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to festnageln
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is festnageln in German?
festnageln appears about once in every 3 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).