pflügen
German, verb
pflügen is spelled P-F-L-Ü-G-E-N (7 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written German, the 48,028th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Pflügen is a German verb meaning “to plow, to plough” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Pflügen is a different word: “dative plural of Pflug”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “mit einem Pflug tätig sein”.
What does pflügen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to plow, to plough
noun
- 1
masculinedative plural of Pflug
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. mit einem Pflug tätig sein 2. irgendetwas mittels eines Pflugs bearbeiten (umwenden) 3. etwas durch Pflügen herstellen 4. ein Tier vor den Pflug spannen und es zum Pflügen einsetzen
noun: 1. Bodenbearbeitung mit einem Pflug
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 pflügen
- pflügt present singular third-person
- pflügte past
- gepflügt participle past
- haben auxiliary
- pflügend participle present
- pflüge first-person indicative present
- pflügst indicative present second-person
- pflügest second-person singular subjunctive
- pflüget plural second-person subjunctive
- pflügten first-person indicative plural
- pflügtest indicative preterite second-person
- pflügtet indicative plural preterite
- pflüg imperative second-person singular
- habe gepflügt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben gepflügt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- pflüg! imperative singular
- pflüge! imperative singular
- pflügt! imperative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to pflügen
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is pflügen in German?
pflügen appears about once in every 1 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).