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leinen

German, adjective

leinen is spelled L-E-I-N-E-N (6 letters) and appears 4.0 times per million words in written German, the 14,528th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Leinen is a German adjective meaning “canvas, cloth” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Leinen is a different word: “linen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “aus Leinen gemacht”.

What does leinen mean in English?

adjective

  1. 1

    canvas, cloth

noun

as Leinen
  1. 1

    neuterlinen

  2. 2

    neutercanvas

noun

as Leinen
  1. 1

    plural of Leine

noun

as Leinen
  1. 1

    dative plural of Lein

Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How German dictionaries define it

adjective: 1. aus Leinen gemacht

verb: 1. an die Leine nehmen

noun: 1. die aus der Flachspflanze gewonnene Flachsfaser 2. das Gewebe aus dieser Faser: als Halbleinen mit Anteil von Flachsfasern und als Vollleinen, falls 100-prozentig Flachs genutzt wurde 3. eine Art des Bucheinbandes aus solchem Stoff

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 leinen

  • Leinens genitive
  • leinener masculine nominative singular
  • leinene feminine nominative singular
  • leinenes neuter nominative singular
  • leinenen genitive masculine singular
  • leinenem dative masculine singular
  • der leinene definite includes-article masculine
  • die leinene definite feminine includes-article
  • das leinene definite includes-article neuter
  • die leinenen definite includes-article nominative
  • des leinenen definite genitive includes-article
  • der leinenen definite feminine genitive
  • dem leinenen dative definite includes-article
  • leine present
  • leinst present
  • leint present
  • leinte past
  • lein! imperative singular

Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

English words that translate to leinen

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is leinen in German?

leinen appears 4.0 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).

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