picknicken
German, verb
picknicken is spelled P-I-C-K-N-I-C-K-E-N (10 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written German, the 74,397th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Picknicken is a German verb meaning “to picnic, to have a picnic” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Picknicken is a different word: “dative plural of Picknick”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “ein (kaltes, mitgeführtes) Essen im Freien zu sich nehmen”.
What does picknicken mean in English?
verb
- 1
to picnic, to have a picnic
noun
- 1
neuterdative plural of Picknick
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. ein (kaltes, mitgeführtes) Essen im Freien zu sich nehmen
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 picknicken
- picknickt present singular third-person
- picknickte past
- gepicknickt participle past
- haben auxiliary
- picknickend participle present
- picknicke first-person indicative present
- picknickst indicative present second-person
- picknickest second-person singular subjunctive
- picknicket plural second-person subjunctive
- picknickten first-person indicative plural
- picknicktest indicative preterite second-person
- picknicktet indicative plural preterite
- picknick imperative second-person singular
- habe gepicknickt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben gepicknickt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- picknick! imperative singular
- picknicke! imperative singular
- picknickt! imperative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is picknicken in German?
picknicken appears about once in every 3 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).