posten
German, verb
posten is spelled P-O-S-T-E-N (6 letters) and appears 39 times per million words in written German, the 2,154th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Posten is a German verb meaning “to post (to publish an entry or comment in a forum, chat, or social media)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first/third-person plural preterite of posen. With a capital, Posten is a different word: “post, station”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “einen Beitrag in einer Newsgroup oder in einem Forum im Internet veröffentlichen”.
What does posten mean in English?
verb
- 1
to post (to publish an entry or comment in a forum, chat, or social media)
Stefan hat ein neues Urlaubsfoto auf Facebook gepostet.
verb
- 1
first/third-person plural preterite
- 2
first/third-person plural subjunctive II
noun
- 1
masculinepost, station
- 2
masculinejob, position
- 3
masculinelot, position
- 4
masculinebatch of ore for smelting
- 5
masculinebuckshot, big dot
noun
- 1
rareplural of Post
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Teil einer Gesamtmenge 2. Kontrollstelle (zum Beispiel bei Militär oder Polizei) oder Person in dieser Funktion 3. Stelle in einer Organisation 4. grober Schrot für Jagdflinten
verb: 1. einen Beitrag in einer Newsgroup oder in einem Forum im Internet veröffentlichen
verb: 1. einkaufen
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 posten
- postet present singular third-person
- postete past
- gepostet participle past
- haben auxiliary
- postend participle present
- poste first-person indicative present
- postest indicative present second-person
- posteten first-person indicative plural
- postetest indicative preterite second-person
- postetet indicative plural preterite
- post imperative second-person singular
- habe gepostet first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben gepostet first-person indicative multiword-construction
- Pöstchen diminutive
- Postens genitive singular
- poste! imperative singular
- postet! imperative plural
- gepostet haben active infinitive perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to posten
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is posten in German?
posten appears 39 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).