kochen
German, verb
kochen is spelled K-O-C-H-E-N (6 letters) and appears 33 times per million words in written German, the 2,499th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Kochen is a German verb meaning “to cook, to prepare food (chiefly hot food for lunch or supper)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Kochen is a different word: “cooking, cookery”. On this page, Köchen is a different word: “dative plural of Koch”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “Lebensmittel unter Einwirkung von Hitze zu einer Mahlzeit zubereiten”.
What does kochen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to cook, to prepare food (chiefly hot food for lunch or supper)
- 2
to cook something (in a) liquid (e.g. soup, chili, spaghetti)
- 3
(to reach the boiling point)
- 4
(to heat a liquid until it boils)
- 5
to be stirred up or agitated, especially with anger
noun
- 1
neutercooking, cookery
noun
- 1
masculinedative plural of Koch
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Lebensmittel unter Einwirkung von Hitze zu einer Mahlzeit zubereiten 2. Speisen (auch kalte) zubereiten 3. auf über 100 °C erhitzen, sieden 4. Kleidungsstücke bei hohen Temperaturen (meist 95 °C) waschen
noun: 1. das Erhitzen bis zum Siedepunkt 2. das Zubereiten von Essen
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 kochen
- kocht present singular third-person
- kochte past
- gekocht participle past
- haben auxiliary
- kochend participle present
- koche first-person indicative present
- kochst indicative present second-person
- kochest second-person singular subjunctive
- kochet plural second-person subjunctive
- kochten first-person indicative plural
- kochtest indicative preterite second-person
- kochtet indicative plural preterite
- koch imperative second-person singular
- habe gekocht first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben gekocht first-person indicative multiword-construction
- koch! imperative singular
- koche! imperative singular
- kocht! imperative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to kochen
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is kochen in German?
kochen appears 33 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).