fremdeln
German, verb
fremdeln is spelled F-R-E-M-D-E-L-N (8 letters) and appears about once in every 19 million words in written German, the 244,602nd most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Fremdeln is a German verb meaning “to conceive alienation, to have reservations in accommodating the fremd” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Fremdeln is a different word: “gerund of fremdeln”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “in Gegenwart von Fremden ängstlich sein”.
What does fremdeln mean in English?
verb
- 1
to conceive alienation, to have reservations in accommodating the fremd
noun
- 1
neutergerund of fremdeln
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. in Gegenwart von Fremden ängstlich sein 2. in Gegenwart von Fremden/Unbekannten scheu sein
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 fremdeln
- fremdelt present singular third-person
- fremdelte past
- gefremdelt participle past
- haben auxiliary
- fremdelnd participle present
- fremdle first-person indicative present
- fremdele first-person indicative present
- fremdel first-person indicative present
- fremdelst indicative present second-person
- fremdelest second-person singular subjunctive
- fremdlest second-person singular subjunctive
- fremdelet plural second-person subjunctive
- fremdlet plural second-person subjunctive
- fremdelten first-person indicative plural
- fremdeltest indicative preterite second-person
- fremdeltet indicative plural preterite
- fremdel! imperative singular
- fremdle! imperative singular
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is fremdeln in German?
fremdeln appears about once in every 19 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).