pinseln
German, verb
pinseln is spelled P-I-N-S-E-L-N (7 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written German, the 72,255th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Pinseln is a German verb meaning “to paint, to daub” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Pinseln is a different word: “dative plural of Pinsel”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “(etwas) mit einem Pinsel auftragen”.
What does pinseln mean in English?
verb
- 1
to paint, to daub
noun
- 1
masculinedative plural of Pinsel
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. (etwas) mit einem Pinsel auftragen 2. malen
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 pinseln
- pinselt present singular third-person
- pinselte past
- gepinselt participle past
- haben auxiliary
- pinselnd participle present
- pinsle first-person indicative present
- pinsele first-person indicative present
- pinsel first-person indicative present
- pinselst indicative present second-person
- pinselest second-person singular subjunctive
- pinslest second-person singular subjunctive
- pinselet plural second-person subjunctive
- pinslet plural second-person subjunctive
- pinselten first-person indicative plural
- pinseltest indicative preterite second-person
- pinseltet indicative plural preterite
- pinsle! imperative singular
- pinsele! imperative singular
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is pinseln in German?
pinseln 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).