mochten
German, verb
mochten is spelled M-O-C-H-T-E-N (7 letters) and appears 62 times per million words in written German, the 1,391st most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Mochten is a German verb meaning “first/third-person plural preterite of mögen” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an umlaut, möchten is a different word: “first/third-person plural subjunctive II of mögen”.
What does mochten mean in English?
verb
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first/third-person plural preterite of mögen
verb
- 1
first/third-person plural subjunctive II of mögen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. den Wunsch nach etwas hegen
The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.
Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
How common is mochten in German?
mochten appears 62 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).