impfen
German, verb
impfen is spelled I-M-P-F-E-N (6 letters) and appears 3.2 times per million words in written German, the 16,945th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Impfen is a German verb meaning “to inoculate, to vaccinate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Impfen is a different word: “gerund of impfen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “mit einer Impfung gegen Krankheiten schützen”.
What does impfen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to inoculate, to vaccinate
- 2
to inoculate
noun
- 1
neutergerund of impfen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. mit einer Impfung gegen Krankheiten schützen 2. jemandem eine bestimmte Haltung beibringen, ihn veranlassen, etwas Bestimmtes zu sagen
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 impfen
- impft present singular third-person
- impfte past
- geimpft participle past
- haben auxiliary
- impfend participle present
- impfe first-person indicative present
- impfst indicative present second-person
- impfest second-person singular subjunctive
- impfet plural second-person subjunctive
- impften first-person indicative plural
- impftest indicative preterite second-person
- impftet indicative plural preterite
- impf imperative second-person singular
- habe geimpft first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben geimpft first-person indicative multiword-construction
- impfe! imperative singular
- impft! imperative plural
- geimpft haben active infinitive perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to impfen
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is impfen in German?
impfen appears 3.2 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).