heften
German, verb
heften is spelled H-E-F-T-E-N (6 letters) and appears 1.5 times per million words in written German, the 29,978th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Heften is a German verb meaning “to fasten” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Heften is a different word: “dative plural of Heft”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “mit Klammern vorläufig oder dauerhaft verbinden”.
What does heften mean in English?
verb
- 1
to fasten
- 2
to tack
- 3
to stick
noun
- 1
neuterdative plural of Heft
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. mit Klammern vorläufig oder dauerhaft verbinden 2. mit Fäden vorläufig verbinden 3. (den Blick) unverwandt auf etwas richten
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 heften
- heftet present singular third-person
- heftete past
- geheftet participle past
- haben auxiliary
- heftend participle present
- hefte first-person indicative present
- heftest indicative present second-person
- hefteten first-person indicative plural
- heftetest indicative preterite second-person
- heftetet indicative plural preterite
- heft imperative second-person singular
- habe geheftet first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben geheftet first-person indicative multiword-construction
- hefte! imperative singular
- heftet! imperative plural
- geheftet haben active infinitive perfect
- geheftet werden processual-passive infinitive present
- geheftet 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 heften
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is heften in German?
heften appears 1.5 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).