ketten
German, verb
ketten is spelled K-E-T-T-E-N (6 letters) and appears 8.9 times per million words in written German, the 7,736th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Ketten is a German verb meaning “to chain” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Ketten is a different word: “plural of Kette”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “ein aus Gliedern bestehendes Metallgebilde (Kette) benutzen, um jemanden oder etwas festzubinden”.
What does ketten mean in English?
verb
- 1
to chain
noun
- 1
plural of Kette
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. ein aus Gliedern bestehendes Metallgebilde (Kette) benutzen, um jemanden oder etwas festzubinden 2. sich eng an etwas oder jemanden binden; jemanden (zum Beispiel durch Manipulation oder moralische Erpressung) fest an sich binden
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 ketten
- kettet present singular third-person
- kettete past
- gekettet participle past
- haben auxiliary
- kettend participle present
- kette first-person indicative present
- kettest indicative present second-person
- ketteten first-person indicative plural
- kettetest indicative preterite second-person
- kettetet indicative plural preterite
- kett imperative second-person singular
- habe gekettet first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben gekettet first-person indicative multiword-construction
- kett! imperative singular
- kette! imperative singular
- kettet! imperative plural
- gekettet haben active infinitive perfect
- gekettet werden processual-passive infinitive present
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to ketten
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is ketten in German?
ketten appears 8.9 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).