keltern
German, verb
keltern is spelled K-E-L-T-E-R-N (7 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written German, the 86,281st most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Keltern is a German verb meaning “to press (to extract juice from fruits, especially grapes)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Keltern is a different word: “plural of Kelter”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “das Trennen des Traubensaftes von den festen Bestandteilen der Maische durch Ausüben von Druck”.
What does keltern mean in English?
verb
- 1
to press (to extract juice from fruits, especially grapes)
noun
- 1
plural of Kelter
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. das Trennen des Traubensaftes von den festen Bestandteilen der Maische durch Ausüben von Druck
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 keltern
- keltert present singular third-person
- kelterte past
- gekeltert participle past
- haben auxiliary
- kelternd participle present
- keltre first-person indicative present
- keltere first-person indicative present
- kelter first-person indicative present
- kelterst indicative present second-person
- kelterest second-person singular subjunctive
- keltrest second-person singular subjunctive
- kelteret plural second-person subjunctive
- keltret plural second-person subjunctive
- kelterten first-person indicative plural
- keltertest indicative preterite second-person
- keltertet indicative plural preterite
- keltere! imperative singular
- keltert! imperative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is keltern in German?
keltern appears about once in every 3 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).