foltern
German, verb
foltern is spelled F-O-L-T-E-R-N (7 letters) and appears 1.7 times per million words in written German, the 27,235th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Foltern is a German verb meaning “to torture (subject to cruel treatment)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Foltern is a different word: “plural of Folter”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “jemandem (physisch oder psychisch) heftigen Schmerz zufügen”.
What does foltern mean in English?
verb
- 1
to torture (subject to cruel treatment)
noun
- 1
feminineplural of Folter
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. jemandem (physisch oder psychisch) heftigen Schmerz zufügen
noun: 1. Ausüben von Folter, Zufügen von Schmerzen
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 foltern
- foltert present singular third-person
- folterte past
- gefoltert participle past
- haben auxiliary
- folternd participle present
- foltre first-person indicative present
- foltere first-person indicative present
- folter first-person indicative present
- folterst indicative present second-person
- folterest second-person singular subjunctive
- foltrest second-person singular subjunctive
- folteret plural second-person subjunctive
- foltret plural second-person subjunctive
- folterten first-person indicative plural
- foltertest indicative preterite second-person
- foltertet indicative plural preterite
- foltere! imperative singular
- foltert! imperative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to foltern
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is foltern in German?
foltern appears 1.7 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).