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müllen

German, verb

müllen is spelled M-Ü-L-L-E-N (6 letters) and appears about once in every 5 million words in written German, the 110,302nd most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Müllen is a German verb meaning “to make garbage” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). On this page, Mullen is a different word: “dative plural of Mull”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “Müll erzeugen, produzieren”.

What does müllen mean in English?

verb

  1. 1

    to make garbage

  2. 2

    to throw away garbage

noun

as Mullen
  1. 1

    masculinedative plural of Mull

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

How German dictionaries define it

verb: 1. Müll erzeugen, produzieren 2. Müll entsorgen, wegwerfen

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 müllen

  • müllt present singular third-person
  • müllte past
  • gemüllt participle past
  • haben auxiliary
  • müllend participle present
  • mülle first-person indicative present
  • müllst indicative present second-person
  • müllest second-person singular subjunctive
  • müllet plural second-person subjunctive
  • müllten first-person indicative plural
  • mülltest indicative preterite second-person
  • mülltet indicative plural preterite
  • müll imperative second-person singular
  • habe gemüllt first-person indicative multiword-construction
  • haben gemüllt first-person indicative multiword-construction
  • müll! imperative singular
  • mülle! imperative singular
  • müllt! imperative plural

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

How common is müllen in German?

müllen appears about once in every 5 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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