kurven
German, verb
kurven is spelled K-U-R-V-E-N (6 letters) and appears 6.9 times per million words in written German, the 9,526th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Kurven is a German verb meaning “to drive around in a vehicle” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Kurven is a different word: “plural of Kurve”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “mit einem Motorfahrzeug, meist einem Auto, ziellos durch die Gegend fahren”.
What does kurven mean in English?
verb
- 1
colloquialto drive around in a vehicle
noun
- 1
plural of Kurve
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. mit einem Motorfahrzeug, meist einem Auto, ziellos durch die Gegend fahren 2. mit einem Fahrzeug eine Biegung (Kurve) fahren 3. sich in einem Bogen (Kurve) biegen
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 kurven
- kurvt present singular third-person
- kurvte past
- gekurvt participle past
- sein auxiliary
- kurvend participle present
- kurve first-person indicative present
- kurvst indicative present second-person
- kurvest second-person singular subjunctive
- kurvet plural second-person subjunctive
- kurvten first-person indicative plural
- kurvtest indicative preterite second-person
- kurvtet indicative plural preterite
- kurv imperative second-person singular
- bin gekurvt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- sind gekurvt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- kurv! imperative singular
- kurve! imperative singular
- kurvt! imperative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to kurven
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is kurven in German?
kurven appears 6.9 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).