kreiden
German, verb
kreiden is spelled K-R-E-I-D-E-N (7 letters) and appears about once in every 12 million words in written German, the 192,441st most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Kreiden is a German verb meaning “to draw with chalk” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Kreiden is a different word: “plural of Kreide”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “mit Kreide auf einer Tafel schreiben”.
What does kreiden mean in English?
verb
- 1
archaicto write with chalk
- 2
to draw with chalk
- 3
to chalk (the cue)
adjective
- 1
obsoletechalk
noun
- 1
plural of Kreide
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. mit Kreide auf einer Tafel schreiben 2. mit Kreide (Pastellkreide, Tafelkreide) zeichnen, malen 3. die Stoßspitze des Queues mit Kreide bestreichen
adjective: 1. aus Kreide bestehend
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 kreiden
- kreidet present singular third-person
- kreidete past
- gekreidet participle past
- haben auxiliary
- kreidend participle present
- kreide first-person indicative present
- kreidest indicative present second-person
- kreideten first-person indicative plural
- kreidetest indicative preterite second-person
- kreidetet indicative plural preterite
- kreid imperative second-person singular
- habe gekreidet first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben gekreidet first-person indicative multiword-construction
- kr. abbreviation
- kreide! imperative singular
- kreidet! imperative plural
- gekreidet haben active infinitive perfect
- gekreidet werden processual-passive infinitive present
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is kreiden in German?
kreiden appears about once in every 12 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).