planen
German, verb
planen is spelled P-L-A-N-E-N (6 letters) and appears 22 times per million words in written German, the 3,577th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Planen is a German verb meaning “to plan (some action or event)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Planen is a different word: “gerund of planen”. On this page, Plänen is a different word: “dative plural of Plan”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “zukünftige Handlungen ausarbeiten; sich Gedanken darüber machen, wie eine künftige Sache gut durchgeführt…”.
What does planen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to plan (some action or event)
noun
- 1
neutergerund of planen
noun
- 1
feminineplural of Plane
noun
- 1
masculinedative plural of Plan
noun
- 1
feminineplural of Pläne
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. zukünftige Handlungen ausarbeiten; sich Gedanken darüber machen, wie eine künftige Sache gut durchgeführt werden kann 2. etwas vorhaben
noun: 1. Erstellungsprozess eines Planes, vorausschauende Entwicklung einer sinnvollen Anordnung mehrerer Einzelhandlungen zur Erreichung eines Zieles
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 planen
- plant present singular third-person
- plante past
- geplant participle past
- haben auxiliary
- planend participle present
- plane first-person indicative present
- planst indicative present second-person
- planest second-person singular subjunctive
- planet plural second-person subjunctive
- planten first-person indicative plural
- plantest indicative preterite second-person
- plantet indicative plural preterite
- plan imperative second-person singular
- habe geplant first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben geplant first-person indicative multiword-construction
- plane! imperative singular
- plant! imperative plural
- geplant haben active infinitive perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to planen
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is planen in German?
planen appears 22 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).