golfen
German, verb
golfen is spelled G-O-L-F-E-N (6 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written German, the 47,290th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Golfen is a German verb meaning “to play golf” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Golfen is a different word: “dative plural of Golf”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “Golf spielen”.
What does golfen mean in English?
verb
- 1
colloquialto play golf
noun
- 1
masculinedative plural of Golf
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Golf spielen
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 golfen
- golft present singular third-person
- golfte past
- gegolft participle past
- haben auxiliary
- golfend participle present
- golfe first-person indicative present
- golfst indicative present second-person
- golfest second-person singular subjunctive
- golfet plural second-person subjunctive
- golften first-person indicative plural
- golftest indicative preterite second-person
- golftet indicative plural preterite
- golf imperative second-person singular
- habe gegolft first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben gegolft first-person indicative multiword-construction
- golfe! imperative singular
- golft! imperative plural
- gegolft haben active infinitive perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to golfen
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is golfen in German?
golfen appears about once in every 1 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).