pferchen
German, verb
pferchen is spelled P-F-E-R-C-H-E-N (8 letters) and appears about once in every 15 million words in written German, the 219,861st most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Pferchen is a German verb meaning “to enclose (e.g. in a pen)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Pferchen is a different word: “dative plural of Pferch”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “auf engem Raum/in einem Pferch unterbringen (besonders Tiere)”.
What does pferchen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to enclose (e.g. in a pen)
noun
- 1
masculinedative plural of Pferch
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. auf engem Raum/in einem Pferch unterbringen (besonders Tiere)
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 pferchen
- pfercht present singular third-person
- pferchte past
- gepfercht participle past
- haben auxiliary
- pferchend participle present
- pferche first-person indicative present
- pferchst indicative present second-person
- pferchest second-person singular subjunctive
- pferchet plural second-person subjunctive
- pferchten first-person indicative plural
- pferchtest indicative preterite second-person
- pferchtet indicative plural preterite
- pferch imperative second-person singular
- habe gepfercht first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben gepfercht first-person indicative multiword-construction
- pferch! imperative singular
- pferche! imperative singular
- pfercht! imperative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is pferchen in German?
pferchen appears about once in every 15 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).