klauben
German, verb
klauben is spelled K-L-A-U-B-E-N (7 letters) and appears about once in every 13 million words in written German, the 195,050th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Klauben is a German verb meaning “to pick up, collect (piece by piece)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Klauben is a different word: “gerund of klauben”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “etwas mühevoll heraussuchen”.
What does klauben mean in English?
verb
- 1
Austriato pick up, collect (piece by piece)
noun
- 1
neutergerund of klauben
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. etwas mühevoll heraussuchen 2. pflücken, sammeln
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 klauben
- klaubt present singular third-person
- klaubte past
- geklaubt participle past
- haben auxiliary
- klaubend participle present
- klaube first-person indicative present
- klaubst indicative present second-person
- klaubest second-person singular subjunctive
- klaubet plural second-person subjunctive
- klaubten first-person indicative plural
- klaubtest indicative preterite second-person
- klaubtet indicative plural preterite
- klaub imperative second-person singular
- habe geklaubt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben geklaubt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- klaube! imperative singular
- klaub! imperative singular
- klaubt! imperative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to klauben
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is klauben in German?
klauben appears about once in every 13 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).