flennen
German, verb[ˈflɛnən]
flennen is spelled F-L-E-N-N-E-N (7 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written German, the 90,067th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Flennen is a German verb meaning “to cry (noisily)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “weinen”.
What does flennen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to cry (noisily)
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. weinen
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 flennen
- flennt present singular third-person
- flennte past
- geflennt participle past
- haben auxiliary
- flennend participle present
- flenne first-person indicative present
- flennst indicative present second-person
- flennest second-person singular subjunctive
- flennet plural second-person subjunctive
- flennten first-person indicative plural
- flenntest indicative preterite second-person
- flenntet indicative plural preterite
- flenn imperative second-person singular
- habe geflennt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben geflennt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- flenne! imperative singular
- flennt! imperative plural
- geflennt haben active infinitive perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce flennen?
- [ˈflɛnən]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to flennen
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is flennen in German?
flennen appears about once in every 4 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).