polen
German, verb
polen is spelled P-O-L-E-N (5 letters) and appears 52 times per million words in written German, the 1,636th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Polen is a German verb meaning “to polarize” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Polen is a different word: “genitive/dative/accusative singular”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “etwas mit einem elektrischen Pol verbinden”.
What does polen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to polarize
noun
- 1
genitive/dative/accusative singular
- 2
nominative/genitive/dative/accusative plural
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 elektrischen Pol verbinden
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 polen
- polt present singular third-person
- polte past
- gepolt participle past
- haben auxiliary
- polend participle present
- pole first-person indicative present
- polst indicative present second-person
- polest second-person singular subjunctive
- polet plural second-person subjunctive
- polten first-person indicative plural
- poltest indicative preterite second-person
- poltet indicative plural preterite
- pol imperative second-person singular
- habe gepolt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben gepolt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- pol! imperative singular
- pole! imperative singular
- polt! imperative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is polen in German?
polen appears 52 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).