kleben
German, verb
kleben is spelled K-L-E-B-E-N (6 letters) and appears 6.3 times per million words in written German, the 10,247th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Kleben is a German verb meaning “to glue” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Kleben is a different word: “gerund of kleben”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “zwei Gegenstände mit einem Hilfsstoff (Klebstoff) zum dauernden Aneinanderhaften bringen”.
What does kleben mean in English?
verb
- 1
to glue
- 2
to stick
Der Schlamm klebte an den Schuhen.
- 3
to be sticky
noun
- 1
neutergerund of kleben
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. zwei Gegenstände mit einem Hilfsstoff (Klebstoff) zum dauernden Aneinanderhaften bringen 2. dauernd an etwas haften
noun: 1. Handlung, etwas zu kleben, zum dauernden Aneinanderhaften zu bringen
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 kleben
- klebt present singular third-person
- klebte past
- geklebt participle past
- haben auxiliary
- klebend participle present
- klebe first-person indicative present
- klebst indicative present second-person
- klebest second-person singular subjunctive
- klebet plural second-person subjunctive
- klebten first-person indicative plural
- klebtest indicative preterite second-person
- klebtet indicative plural preterite
- kleb imperative second-person singular
- habe geklebt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben geklebt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- kleb! imperative singular
- klebe! imperative singular
- klebt! imperative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to kleben
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is kleben in German?
kleben appears 6.3 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).