kapern
German, verb
kapern is spelled K-A-P-E-R-N (6 letters) and appears 1.0 times per million words in written German, the 38,034th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Kapern is a German verb meaning “to capture, to seize, to hijack (a ship or airplane)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Kapern is a different word: “plural of Kaper”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “sich eines Schiffs bemächtigen”.
What does kapern mean in English?
verb
- 1
to capture, to seize, to hijack (a ship or airplane)
noun
- 1
plural of Kaper
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. sich eines Schiffs bemächtigen 2. etwas übernehmen, sich in Besitz eines (fremden) Guts setzen
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 kapern
- kapert present singular third-person
- kaperte past
- gekapert participle past
- haben auxiliary
- kapernd participle present
- kapre first-person indicative present
- kapere first-person indicative present
- kaper first-person indicative present
- kaperst indicative present second-person
- kaperest second-person singular subjunctive
- kaprest second-person singular subjunctive
- kaperet plural second-person subjunctive
- kapret plural second-person subjunctive
- kaperten first-person indicative plural
- kapertest indicative preterite second-person
- kapertet indicative plural preterite
- kapere! imperative singular
- kapert! imperative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to kapern
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is kapern in German?
kapern appears 1.0 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).