matchen
German, verb
matchen is spelled M-A-T-C-H-E-N (7 letters) and appears about once in every 6 million words in written German, the 130,853rd most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Matchen is a German verb meaning “to match (to make a successful pairing)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Matchen is a different word: “dative plural of Match”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “exakt übereinstimmen, gut zueinanderpassen, aufgrund exakter Übereinstimmung auswählen”.
What does matchen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to match (to make a successful pairing)
noun
- 1
neuterdative plural of Match
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. exakt übereinstimmen, gut zueinanderpassen, aufgrund exakter Übereinstimmung auswählen 2. sich in einem Wettkampf messen, an einem Match teilnehmen
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 matchen
- matcht present singular third-person
- matchte past
- gematcht participle past
- haben auxiliary
- matchend participle present
- matche first-person indicative present
- matchst indicative present second-person
- matchest second-person singular subjunctive
- matchet plural second-person subjunctive
- matchten first-person indicative plural
- matchtest indicative preterite second-person
- matchtet indicative plural preterite
- match imperative second-person singular
- habe gematcht first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben gematcht first-person indicative multiword-construction
- matche! imperative singular
- matcht! imperative plural
- gematcht haben active infinitive perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is matchen in German?
matchen 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).