langen
German, verb
langen is spelled L-A-N-G-E-N (6 letters) and appears 71 times per million words in written German, the 1,205th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Langen is a German verb meaning “to reach, to grab” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a strong genitive masculine/neuter singular of lang. With an umlaut, längen is a different word: “to lengthen, to elongate, to stretch”. On this page, Längen is a different word: “plural of Länge”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “sich einem Gegenstand entgegen strecken, um ihn zu ergreifen”.
What does langen mean in English?
verb
- 1
informalto reach, to grab
- 2
informalto take, to grab
- 3
informalto pass, to hand something to someone
- 4
informalto suffice, to be enough
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adjective
- 1
masculineneuterstrong genitive masculine/neuter singular
- 2
weak/mixed genitive/dative all-gender singular
- 3
masculinestrong/weak/mixed accusative masculine singular
- 4
strong dative plural
- 5
weak/mixed all-case plural
verb
- 1
to lengthen, to elongate, to stretch
- 2
to delay
- 3
to become longer
noun
- 1
plural of Länge
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. sich einem Gegenstand entgegen strecken, um ihn zu ergreifen 2. ausreichend vorhanden sein, genügend verfügbar sein 3. schlagen, hauen
verb: 1. etwas länger machen, das Volumen vergrößern 2. in der Längsrichtung größer werden 3. in die Länge ziehen, länger dauern lassen 4. sich in die Länge ziehen, länger dauern
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 langen
- langt present singular third-person
- langte past
- gelangt participle past
- haben auxiliary
- langend participle present
- lange first-person indicative present
- langst indicative present second-person
- langest second-person singular subjunctive
- langet plural second-person subjunctive
- langten first-person indicative plural
- langtest indicative preterite second-person
- langtet indicative plural preterite
- lang imperative second-person singular
- habe gelangt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben gelangt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- lange! imperative singular
- lang! imperative singular
- langt! imperative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to langen
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is langen in German?
langen appears 71 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).