flicken
German, verb
flicken is spelled F-L-I-C-K-E-N (7 letters) and appears 1.4 times per million words in written German, the 31,493rd most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Flicken is a German verb meaning “to patch up, to mend” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Flicken is a different word: “patch”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “zerrissenen Stoff mit einem anderen Stück Stoff ausbessern”.
What does flicken mean in English?
verb
- 1
to patch up, to mend
noun
- 1
masculinepatch
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. ein kleiner, meist quadratförmiger Ausschnitt eines Stoffes zur Bedeckung/Reparatur aufgerissener Löcher in Kleidungsstücken
verb: 1. zerrissenen Stoff mit einem anderen Stück Stoff ausbessern
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 flicken
- Flickens genitive
- flickt present singular third-person
- flickte past
- geflickt participle past
- haben auxiliary
- flickend participle present
- flicke first-person indicative present
- flickst indicative present second-person
- flickest second-person singular subjunctive
- flicket plural second-person subjunctive
- flickten first-person indicative plural
- flicktest indicative preterite second-person
- flicktet indicative plural preterite
- flick imperative second-person singular
- Flick variant regional
- flicke! imperative singular
- flickt! imperative plural
- geflickt haben active infinitive perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to flicken
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is flicken in German?
flicken appears 1.4 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).