foppen
German, verb/ˈfɔpən/
foppen is spelled F-O-P-P-E-N (6 letters) and appears about once in every 8 million words in written German, the 146,442nd most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Foppen is a German verb meaning “to put on, to tease, to hoax” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “jemanden hereinlegen, hinters Licht führen”.
What does foppen mean in English?
verb
- 1
colloquialto put on, to tease, to hoax
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. jemanden hereinlegen, hinters Licht führen
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 foppen
- foppt present singular third-person
- foppte past
- gefoppt participle past
- haben auxiliary
- foppend participle present
- foppe first-person indicative present
- foppst indicative present second-person
- foppest second-person singular subjunctive
- foppet plural second-person subjunctive
- foppten first-person indicative plural
- fopptest indicative preterite second-person
- fopptet indicative plural preterite
- fopp imperative second-person singular
- habe gefoppt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben gefoppt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- fopp! imperative singular
- foppe! imperative singular
- foppt! imperative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce foppen?
- /ˈfɔpən/
- [ˈfɔpən]
- [ˈfɔpm̩]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to foppen
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is foppen in German?
foppen appears about once in every 8 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).