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malen

German, verb

malen is spelled M-A-L-E-N (5 letters) and appears 13 times per million words in written German, the 5,698th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Malen is a German verb meaning “to paint (do paintwork)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Malen is a different word: “gerund of malen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “mit Farbe bestreichen, anstreichen; mit Farbe bunt verzieren”.

What does malen mean in English?

verb

  1. 1

    to paint (do paintwork)

  2. 2

    to paint (create a painting)

  3. 3

    to draw, depict (with a pencil, computer program, etc.)

noun

as Malen
  1. 1

    neutergerund of malen

noun

as Malen
  1. 1

    neuterdative plural of Mal

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

How German dictionaries define it

verb: 1. mit Farbe bestreichen, anstreichen; mit Farbe bunt verzieren 2. schminken 3. mit Pinsel und Farbe Gegenständliches auf einer Fläche erschaffen, welches sich zumeist als Bild darstellt 4. mit langsamen, behutsamen Federdruck kolorierend oder kalligraphierend schreiben

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 malen

  • malt present singular third-person
  • malte past
  • gemalt participle past
  • haben auxiliary
  • malend participle present
  • male first-person indicative present
  • malst indicative present second-person
  • malest second-person singular subjunctive
  • malet plural second-person subjunctive
  • malten first-person indicative plural
  • maltest indicative preterite second-person
  • maltet indicative plural preterite
  • mal imperative second-person singular
  • habe gemalt first-person indicative multiword-construction
  • haben gemalt first-person indicative multiword-construction
  • male! imperative singular
  • mal! imperative singular
  • malt! imperative plural

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

English words that translate to malen

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

How common is malen in German?

malen appears 13 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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