kieken
German, verb/ˈkiːkən/
kieken is spelled K-I-E-K-E-N (6 letters) and appears about once in every 28 million words in written German, the 309,493rd most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Kieken is a German verb meaning “to look; to glance” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “gucken, schauen, sehen”.
What does kieken mean in English?
verb
- 1
colloquialto look; to glance
Wat kiekt der Typ denn so hier rüber?
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. gucken, schauen, sehen
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 kieken
- kiekt present singular third-person
- kiekte past
- gekiekt participle past
- haben auxiliary
- kiekend participle present
- kieke first-person indicative present
- kiekst indicative present second-person
- kiekest second-person singular subjunctive
- kieket plural second-person subjunctive
- kiekten first-person indicative plural
- kiektest indicative preterite second-person
- kiektet indicative plural preterite
- kiek imperative second-person singular
- habe gekiekt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben gekiekt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- kieke! imperative singular
- kiekt! imperative plural
- gekiekt haben active infinitive perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce kieken?
- /ˈkiːkən/
- [ˈkiːkən]
- [ˈkiːkŋ̩]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to kieken
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is kieken in German?
kieken appears about once in every 28 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).