plaudern
German, verb
plaudern is spelled P-L-A-U-D-E-R-N (8 letters) and appears 2.6 times per million words in written German, the 19,862nd most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Plaudern is a German verb meaning “to chat” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Plaudern is a different word: “gerund of plaudern”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “sich ungezwungen unterhalten”.
What does plaudern mean in English?
verb
- 1
to chat
noun
- 1
neutergerund of plaudern
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. sich ungezwungen unterhalten 2. (unbedacht) ein Wissen, das man für sich behalten sollte, weitergeben
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 plaudern
- plaudert present singular third-person
- plauderte past
- geplaudert participle past
- haben auxiliary
- plaudernd participle present
- plaudre first-person indicative present
- plaudere first-person indicative present
- plauder first-person indicative present
- plauderst indicative present second-person
- plauderest second-person singular subjunctive
- plaudrest second-person singular subjunctive
- plauderet plural second-person subjunctive
- plaudret plural second-person subjunctive
- plauderten first-person indicative plural
- plaudertest indicative preterite second-person
- plaudertet indicative plural preterite
- plaudre! imperative singular
- plaudere! imperative singular
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to plaudern
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is plaudern in German?
plaudern appears 2.6 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).