kerkern
German, verb
kerkern is spelled K-E-R-K-E-R-N (7 letters) and appears about once in every 9 million words in written German, the 159,136th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Kerkern is a German verb meaning “to lock up; to confine” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Kerkern is a different word: “dative plural of Kerker”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “im Verlies/Gefängnis (Kerker) einschließen, gefangennehmen martern/quälen”.
What does kerkern mean in English?
verb
- 1
archaicto lock up; to confine
noun
- 1
masculinedative plural of Kerker
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. im Verlies/Gefängnis (Kerker) einschließen, gefangennehmen martern/quälen
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 kerkern
- kerkert present singular third-person
- kerkerte past
- gekerkert participle past
- haben auxiliary
- kerkernd participle present
- kerkre first-person indicative present
- kerkere first-person indicative present
- kerker first-person indicative present
- kerkerst indicative present second-person
- kerkerest second-person singular subjunctive
- kerkrest second-person singular subjunctive
- kerkeret plural second-person subjunctive
- kerkret plural second-person subjunctive
- kerkerten first-person indicative plural
- kerkertest indicative preterite second-person
- kerkertet indicative plural preterite
- kerker! imperative singular
- kerkere! imperative singular
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is kerkern in German?
kerkern appears about once in every 9 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).