lupfen
German, verb
lupfen is spelled L-U-P-F-E-N (6 letters) and appears about once in every 6 million words in written German, the 120,168th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Lupfen is a German verb meaning “to lift; to raise” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an umlaut, lüpfen is a different word: “to slightly lift a covering in order to see or show that beneath it”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “in die Luft heben, heben, hochheben”.
What does lupfen mean in English?
verb
- 1
AustriaSwitzerlandto lift; to raise
- 2
to lift the ball steeply, usually without spin, by putting the tip of one’s foot under it and abruptly lifting the leg
verb
- 1
to slightly lift a covering in order to see or show that beneath it
- 2
alternative form of lupfen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. in die Luft heben, heben, hochheben
verb: 1. etwas (, das nicht besonders schwer ist,) kurz anheben 2. den Ball über einen Spieler hinwegspielen
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 lupfen
- lüpft present singular third-person
- lüpfte past
- gelüpft participle past
- haben auxiliary
- lüpfend participle present
- lüpfe first-person indicative present
- lüpfst indicative present second-person
- lüpfest second-person singular subjunctive
- lüpfet plural second-person subjunctive
- lüpften first-person indicative plural
- lüpftest indicative preterite second-person
- lüpftet indicative plural preterite
- lüpf imperative second-person singular
- habe gelüpft first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben gelüpft first-person indicative multiword-construction
- lupfe present
- lupfst present
- lupft present
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to lupfen
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is lupfen in German?
lupfen appears about once in every 6 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).