kerben
German, verb
kerben is spelled K-E-R-B-E-N (6 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written German, the 69,095th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Kerben is a German verb meaning “to notch” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Kerben is a different word: “plural of Kerbe”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “eine Kerbe formen”.
What does kerben mean in English?
verb
- 1
to notch
noun
- 1
plural of Kerbe
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. eine Kerbe formen
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 kerben
- kerbt present singular third-person
- kerbte past
- gekerbt participle past
- haben auxiliary
- kerbend participle present
- kerbe first-person indicative present
- kerbst indicative present second-person
- kerbest second-person singular subjunctive
- kerbet plural second-person subjunctive
- kerbten first-person indicative plural
- kerbtest indicative preterite second-person
- kerbtet indicative plural preterite
- kerb imperative second-person singular
- habe gekerbt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben gekerbt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- kerb! imperative singular
- kerbe! imperative singular
- kerbt! imperative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to kerben
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is kerben in German?
kerben appears about once in every 2 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).