flügeln
German, verb
flügeln is spelled F-L-Ü-G-E-L-N (7 letters) and appears 3.4 times per million words in written German, the 16,394th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Flügeln is a German verb meaning “to wing” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Flügeln is a different word: “dative plural of Flügel”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “poetisch für beflügeln”.
What does flügeln mean in English?
verb
- 1
to wing
- 2
to flutter
noun
- 1
masculinedative plural of Flügel
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. poetisch für beflügeln 2. poetisch für flattern, „mit den Flügeln schlagen“
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 flügeln
- flügelt present singular third-person
- flügelte past
- geflügelt participle past
- haben auxiliary
- flügelnd participle present
- flügle first-person indicative present
- flügele first-person indicative present
- flügel first-person indicative present
- flügelst indicative present second-person
- flügelest second-person singular subjunctive
- flüglest second-person singular subjunctive
- flügelet plural second-person subjunctive
- flüglet plural second-person subjunctive
- flügelten first-person indicative plural
- flügeltest indicative preterite second-person
- flügeltet indicative plural preterite
- flügele! imperative singular
- flügle! imperative singular
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is flügeln in German?
flügeln appears 3.4 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).