furchen
German, verb
furchen is spelled F-U-R-C-H-E-N (7 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written German, the 61,377th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Furchen is a German verb meaning “to furrow” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Furchen is a different word: “plural of Furche”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “eine Vertiefung (Furche) in den Boden machen oder auch Wasser nach links und rechts verdrängen”.
What does furchen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to furrow
- 2
to gouge, to rut, to groove, to gutter, to flute
- 3
to wrinkle, to furrow
den Stirn furchen
noun
- 1
plural of Furche
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. eine Vertiefung (Furche) in den Boden machen oder auch Wasser nach links und rechts verdrängen 2. einen Gesichtsteil, meist die Stirn, in Falten legen
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 furchen
- furcht present singular third-person
- furchte past
- gefurcht participle past
- haben auxiliary
- furchend participle present
- furche first-person indicative present
- furchst indicative present second-person
- furchest second-person singular subjunctive
- furchet plural second-person subjunctive
- furchten first-person indicative plural
- furchtest indicative preterite second-person
- furchtet indicative plural preterite
- furch imperative second-person singular
- habe gefurcht first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben gefurcht first-person indicative multiword-construction
- furch! imperative singular
- furche! imperative singular
- furcht! imperative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is furchen in German?
furchen appears about once in every 2 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).