parken
German, verb
parken is spelled P-A-R-K-E-N (6 letters) and appears 9.3 times per million words in written German, the 7,460th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Parken is a German verb meaning “to park” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Parken is a different word: “gerund of parken”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “ein Fahrzeug auf einem dafür vorgesehenen Platz abstellen”.
What does parken mean in English?
verb
- 1
to park
noun
- 1
neutergerund of parken
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. ein Fahrzeug auf einem dafür vorgesehenen Platz abstellen 2. auf einem dafür vorgesehenen Platz zeitweise abgestellt sein
noun: 1. das Abstellen eines Fahrzeugs auf einem dafür vorgesehenen Platz
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 parken
- parkt present singular third-person
- parkte past
- geparkt participle past
- haben auxiliary
- parkend participle present
- parke first-person indicative present
- parkst indicative present second-person
- parkest second-person singular subjunctive
- parket plural second-person subjunctive
- parkten first-person indicative plural
- parktest indicative preterite second-person
- parktet indicative plural preterite
- park imperative second-person singular
- habe geparkt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben geparkt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- parke! imperative singular
- parkt! imperative plural
- geparkt haben active infinitive perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to parken
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is parken in German?
parken appears 9.3 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).