karden
German, verb
karden is spelled K-A-R-D-E-N (6 letters) and appears about once in every 7 million words in written German, the 138,538th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Karden is a German verb meaning “to card” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Karden is a different word: “plural of Karde”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “Rohfasern mit der Karde (mit der Kardiermaschine, ursprünglich aber mit dem getrockneten Blütenstand der…”.
What does karden mean in English?
verb
- 1
to card
noun
- 1
feminineplural of Karde
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Rohfasern mit der Karde (mit der Kardiermaschine, ursprünglich aber mit dem getrockneten Blütenstand der Karden- oder Weberdistel) so bearbeiten, dass die Fasern parallel ausgerichtet werden, um sie anschließend spinnen oder filzen zu können
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 karden
- kardet present singular third-person
- kardete past
- gekardet participle past
- haben auxiliary
- kardend participle present
- karde first-person indicative present
- kardest indicative present second-person
- kardeten first-person indicative plural
- kardetest indicative preterite second-person
- kardetet indicative plural preterite
- kard imperative second-person singular
- habe gekardet first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben gekardet first-person indicative multiword-construction
- kard! imperative singular
- karde! imperative singular
- kardet! imperative plural
- gekardet haben active infinitive perfect
- gekardet werden processual-passive infinitive present
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is karden in German?
karden appears about once in every 7 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).