pfeffern
German, verb
pfeffern is spelled P-F-E-F-F-E-R-N (8 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written German, the 101,039th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Pfeffern is a German verb meaning “to pepper (to add pepper to)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Pfeffern is a different word: “dative plural of Pfeffer”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “mit Pfeffer bestreuen”.
What does pfeffern mean in English?
verb
- 1
to pepper (to add pepper to)
- 2
to envigorate
- 3
colloquialto fling, to hurl (to throw with violence)
Sie pfefferte ihren Rucksack in die Ecke.
noun
- 1
masculinedative plural of Pfeffer
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. mit Pfeffer bestreuen 2. unwillig und mit viel Kraft schleudern
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 pfeffern
- pfeffert present singular third-person
- pfefferte past
- gepfeffert participle past
- haben auxiliary
- pfeffernd participle present
- pfeffre first-person indicative present
- pfeffere first-person indicative present
- pfeffer first-person indicative present
- pfefferst indicative present second-person
- pfefferest second-person singular subjunctive
- pfeffrest second-person singular subjunctive
- pfefferet plural second-person subjunctive
- pfeffret plural second-person subjunctive
- pfefferten first-person indicative plural
- pfeffertest indicative preterite second-person
- pfeffertet indicative plural preterite
- pfeffere! imperative singular
- pfeffert! imperative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to pfeffern
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is pfeffern in German?
pfeffern appears about once in every 4 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).