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fischen

German, verb

fischen is spelled F-I-S-C-H-E-N (7 letters) and appears 7.2 times per million words in written German, the 9,162nd most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Fischen is a German verb meaning “to fish” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Fischen is a different word: “gerund of fischen (“to fish”)”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “Tiere fangen, die im Wasser leben”.

What does fischen mean in English?

verb

  1. 1

    to fish

noun

as Fischen
  1. 1

    neutergerund of fischen (“to fish”)

noun

as Fischen
  1. 1

    masculinedative plural of Fisch

Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How German dictionaries define it

verb: 1. Tiere fangen, die im Wasser leben 2. etwas aus einer Flüssigkeit entfernen

noun: 1. das gewerbliche oder hobbymäßige Fangen von Fisch mit Netz, Reuse oder Angelrute (auch andere Herangehensweise, um an Fisch, zum Verzehr, zu gelangen)

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 fischen

  • fischt present singular third-person
  • fischte past
  • gefischt participle past
  • haben auxiliary
  • fischend participle present
  • fische first-person indicative present
  • fischst indicative present second-person
  • fischest second-person singular subjunctive
  • fischet plural second-person subjunctive
  • fischten first-person indicative plural
  • fischtest indicative preterite second-person
  • fischtet indicative plural preterite
  • fisch imperative second-person singular
  • habe gefischt first-person indicative multiword-construction
  • fische! imperative singular
  • fischt! imperative plural
  • gefischt haben active infinitive perfect
  • gefischt 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 fischen

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is fischen in German?

fischen appears 7.2 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).

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