hüllen
German, verb
hüllen is spelled H-Ü-L-L-E-N (6 letters) and appears 2.6 times per million words in written German, the 20,214th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Hüllen is a German verb meaning “to wrap, to drape, to cover, to engulf” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Hüllen is a different word: “plural of Hülle”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “etwas mit einer Bedeckung versehen, in etwas einwickeln”.
What does hüllen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to wrap, to drape, to cover, to engulf
Sie hüllt das Baby in eine warme Decke.
noun
- 1
plural of Hülle
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. etwas mit einer Bedeckung versehen, in etwas einwickeln
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 hüllen
- hüllt present singular third-person
- hüllte past
- gehüllt participle past
- haben auxiliary
- hüllend participle present
- hülle first-person indicative present
- hüllst indicative present second-person
- hüllest second-person singular subjunctive
- hüllet plural second-person subjunctive
- hüllten first-person indicative plural
- hülltest indicative preterite second-person
- hülltet indicative plural preterite
- hüll imperative second-person singular
- habe gehüllt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben gehüllt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- hülle! imperative singular
- hüllt! imperative plural
- gehüllt haben active infinitive perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to hüllen
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is hüllen in German?
hüllen appears 2.6 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).