Flächen
German, noun
Flächen is spelled F-L-Ä-C-H-E-N (7 letters) and appears 21 times per million words in written German, the 3,720th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Flächen is a German noun meaning “plural of Fläche” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). On this page, flachen is a different word: “strong genitive masculine/neuter singular”.
What does Flächen mean in English?
noun
- 1
plural of Fläche
verb
- 1
archaicto flatten
adjective
- 1
masculineneuterstrong genitive masculine/neuter singular
- 2
weak/mixed genitive/dative all-gender singular
- 3
masculinestrong/weak/mixed accusative masculine singular
- 4
strong dative plural
- 5
weak/mixed all-case plural
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. ebnen; dünner/platter (flacher) machen
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 Flächen
- flacht present singular third-person
- flachte past
- geflacht participle past
- haben auxiliary
- flachend participle present
- flache first-person indicative present
- flachst indicative present second-person
- flachest second-person singular subjunctive
- flachet plural second-person subjunctive
- flachten first-person indicative plural
- flachtest indicative preterite second-person
- flachtet indicative plural preterite
- flach imperative second-person singular
- habe geflacht first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben geflacht first-person indicative multiword-construction
- flach! imperative singular
- flache! imperative singular
- flacht! imperative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is Flächen in German?
Flächen appears 21 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).