Gräten
German, noun
Gräten is spelled G-R-Ä-T-E-N (6 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written German, the 86,281st most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Gräten is a German noun meaning “plural of Gräte” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). Without its umlaut, Graten is a different word: “dative plural of Grat”.
What does Gräten mean in English?
noun
- 1
plural of Gräte
noun
- 1
masculinedative plural of Grat
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Knochen/Fischknochen (Gräten) entfernen
verb: 1. so pflügen, dass in der Feldmitte eine Erhöhung (Grat) entsteht
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 Gräten
- gräte present
- grätest present
- grätet present
- grätete past
- gräte! imperative singular
- grätet! imperative plural
- gegrätet participle-2 perfect
- haben auxiliary perfect
- gegrätet haben active infinitive perfect
- gegrätet werden processual-passive infinitive present
- gegrätet worden sein processual-passive infinitive perfect
- gegrätet sein statal-passive infinitive present
- gegrätet gewesen sein statal-passive infinitive perfect
- zu gräten active extended infinitive
- gegrätet zu haben active extended infinitive
- gegrätet zu werden processual-passive extended infinitive
- gegrätet worden zu sein processual-passive extended infinitive
- gegrätet zu sein statal-passive extended infinitive
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is Gräten in German?
Gräten appears about once in every 3 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).