mauern
German, verb
mauern is spelled M-A-U-E-R-N (6 letters) and appears 12 times per million words in written German, the 6,059th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Mauern is a German verb meaning “to build a wall, to lay bricks” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Mauern is a different word: “gerund of mauern”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “Steine mit Mörtel aufeinanderschichten”.
What does mauern mean in English?
verb
- 1
to build a wall, to lay bricks
- 2
to play defensively in a card game
- 3
to defend the goal with (almost) all players
- 4
to refuse to cooperate; to stonewall
noun
- 1
neutergerund of mauern
noun
- 1
feminineplural of Mauer
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Steine mit Mörtel aufeinanderschichten 2. sein Blatt nicht ausreizen, auf Sicherheit spielen
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 mauern
- mauert present singular third-person
- mauerte past
- gemauert participle past
- haben auxiliary
- mauernd participle present
- maure first-person indicative present
- mauere first-person indicative present
- mauer first-person indicative present
- mauerst indicative present second-person
- mauerest second-person singular subjunctive
- maurest second-person singular subjunctive
- maueret plural second-person subjunctive
- mauret plural second-person subjunctive
- mauerten first-person indicative plural
- mauertest indicative preterite second-person
- mauertet indicative plural preterite
- mauer! imperative singular
- mauere! imperative singular
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to mauern
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is mauern in German?
mauern appears 12 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).