pastellen
German, adjective
pastellen is spelled P-A-S-T-E-L-L-E-N (9 letters) and appears about once in every 54 million words in written German, the 446,287th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Pastellen is a German adjective meaning “pastel” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Pastellen is a different word: “dative plural of Pastell”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “in Pastell, mit Pastellfarben gemalt”.
What does pastellen mean in English?
adjective
- 1
pastel
noun
- 1
neuterdative plural of Pastell
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. in Pastell, mit Pastellfarben gemalt
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 pastellen
- pastellener masculine nominative singular
- pastellene feminine nominative singular
- pastellenes neuter nominative singular
- pastellenen genitive masculine singular
- pastellenem dative masculine singular
- der pastellene definite includes-article masculine
- die pastellene definite feminine includes-article
- das pastellene definite includes-article neuter
- die pastellenen definite includes-article nominative
- des pastellenen definite genitive includes-article
- der pastellenen definite feminine genitive
- dem pastellenen dative definite includes-article
- den pastellenen dative definite includes-article
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is pastellen in German?
pastellen appears about once in every 54 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).