gipfeln
German, verb
gipfeln is spelled G-I-P-F-E-L-N (7 letters) and appears 1.3 times per million words in written German, the 32,981st most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Gipfeln is a German verb meaning “to culminate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Gipfeln is a different word: “dative plural of Gipfel”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “den höchsten Stand erreichen”.
What does gipfeln mean in English?
verb
- 1
to culminate
noun
- 1
masculinedative plural of Gipfel
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. den höchsten Stand erreichen
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 gipfeln
- gipfelt present singular third-person
- gipfelte past
- gegipfelt participle past
- haben auxiliary
- gipfelnd participle present
- gipfle first-person indicative present
- gipfele first-person indicative present
- gipfel first-person indicative present
- gipfelst indicative present second-person
- gipfelest second-person singular subjunctive
- gipflest second-person singular subjunctive
- gipfelet plural second-person subjunctive
- gipflet plural second-person subjunctive
- gipfelten first-person indicative plural
- gipfeltest indicative preterite second-person
- gipfeltet indicative plural preterite
- gipfele! imperative singular
- gipfelt! imperative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to gipfeln
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is gipfeln in German?
gipfeln appears 1.3 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).