lenzen
German, verb
lenzen is spelled L-E-N-Z-E-N (6 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written German, the 48,795th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Lenzen is a German verb meaning “to be idle; to hang out” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Lenzen is a different word: “dative plural of Lenz”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “Wasser aus einem Boots- oder Schiffskörper entfernen”.
What does lenzen mean in English?
verb
- 1
archaicto become spring
verb
- 1
colloquialto be idle; to hang out
verb
- 1
to pump out or drain a ship
verb
- 1
to sail slowly in front the wind
noun
- 1
masculinedative plural of Lenz
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Wasser aus einem Boots- oder Schiffskörper entfernen
verb: 1. Frühling (Lenz) werden, allmählich in den Frühling übergehen
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 lenzen
- lenzt present singular third-person
- lenzte past
- gelenzt participle past
- haben auxiliary
- lenzend participle present
- es lenzt indicative present singular
- es lenze singular subjunctive subjunctive-i
- es lenzte indicative preterite singular
- es hat gelenzt indicative multiword-construction perfect
- es habe gelenzt multiword-construction perfect singular
- es hatte gelenzt indicative multiword-construction pluperfect
- es hätte gelenzt multiword-construction pluperfect singular
- lenzen werden future future-i infinitive
- es werde lenzen future future-i multiword-construction
- es wird lenzen future future-i indicative
- es würde lenzen future future-i multiword-construction
- gelenzt haben werden future future-ii infinitive
- es werde gelenzt haben future future-ii multiword-construction
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is lenzen in German?
lenzen appears about once in every 1 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).