kundschaften
German, verb
kundschaften is spelled K-U-N-D-S-C-H-A-F-T-E-N (12 letters) and appears about once in every 13 million words in written German, the 200,239th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Kundschaften is a German verb meaning “to scout, reconnoiter (perform reconnaissance)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Kundschaften is a different word: “plural of Kundschaft”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “sich bei einer Rundtour einen Eindruck verschaffen, Erkenntnisse sammeln”.
What does kundschaften mean in English?
verb
- 1
to scout, reconnoiter (perform reconnaissance)
noun
- 1
feminineplural of Kundschaft
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. sich bei einer Rundtour einen Eindruck verschaffen, Erkenntnisse 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 kundschaften
- kundschaftet present singular third-person
- kundschaftete past
- gekundschaftet participle past
- haben auxiliary
- kundschaftend participle present
- kundschafte first-person indicative present
- kundschaftest indicative present second-person
- kundschafteten first-person indicative plural
- kundschaftetest indicative preterite second-person
- kundschaftetet indicative plural preterite
- kundschaft imperative second-person singular
- habe gekundschaftet first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben gekundschaftet first-person indicative multiword-construction
- kundschafte! imperative singular
- kundschaftet! imperative plural
- gekundschaftet haben active infinitive perfect
- zu kundschaften active extended infinitive
- gekundschaftet zu haben active extended infinitive
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is kundschaften in German?
kundschaften 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).