pflanzen
German, verb
pflanzen is spelled P-F-L-A-N-Z-E-N (8 letters) and appears 39 times per million words in written German, the 2,154th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Pflanzen is a German verb meaning “to plant” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Pflanzen is a different word: “gerund of pflanzen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “zum Anwachsen einsetzen”.
What does pflanzen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to plant
- 2
Austriato cully, to put one over
noun
- 1
neutergerund of pflanzen
noun
- 1
plural of Pflanze
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. zum Anwachsen einsetzen 2. hinsetzen, aufstellen 3. jemanden zum Narren halten, jemanden an der Nase herumführen
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 pflanzen
- pflanzt present singular third-person
- pflanzte past
- gepflanzt participle past
- haben auxiliary
- pflanzend participle present
- pflanze first-person indicative present
- pflanzest second-person singular subjunctive
- pflanzet plural second-person subjunctive
- pflanzten first-person indicative plural
- pflanztest indicative preterite second-person
- pflanztet indicative plural preterite
- pflanz imperative second-person singular
- habe gepflanzt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben gepflanzt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- pflanze! imperative singular
- pflanz! imperative singular
- pflanzt! imperative plural
- pflanzet! imperative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to pflanzen
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is pflanzen in German?
pflanzen appears 39 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).