schichten
German, verb
schichten is a German verb meaning “to layer, stratify, laminate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Schichten is a different word: “plural of Schicht”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “übereinander legen, anordnen”.
What does schichten mean in English?
verb
- 1
to layer, stratify, laminate
noun
- 1
plural of Schicht
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. übereinander legen, anordnen
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 schichten
- schichtet present singular third-person
- schichtete past
- geschichtet participle past
- haben auxiliary
- schichtend participle present
- schichte first-person indicative present
- schichtest indicative present second-person
- schichteten first-person indicative plural
- schichtetest indicative preterite second-person
- schichtetet indicative plural preterite
- schicht imperative second-person singular
- habe geschichtet first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben geschichtet first-person indicative multiword-construction
- schichte! imperative singular
- schichtet! imperative plural
- geschichtet haben active infinitive perfect
- geschichtet werden processual-passive infinitive present
- geschichtet worden sein processual-passive infinitive perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to schichten
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is schichten in German?
schichten appears 13 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).