pulen
German, verb/ˈpuːlən/
pulen is spelled P-U-L-E-N (5 letters) and appears about once in every 12 million words in written German, the 189,851st most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Pulen is a German verb meaning “to pick, to pull (to try to dislodge or remove something small with one's fingers, especially laboriously so)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “mit den Fingern etwas aus / von etwas entfernen”.
What does pulen mean in English?
verb
- 1
informalto pick, to pull (to try to dislodge or remove something small with one's fingers, especially laboriously so)
an etwas pulen
- 2
to shell (to separate the meat of a crustacean from its shell)
gepulte Krabben
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. mit den Fingern etwas aus / von etwas entfernen 2. mit den Fingern an etwas herummachen
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 pulen
- pult present singular third-person
- pulte past
- gepult participle past
- haben auxiliary
- pulend participle present
- pule first-person indicative present
- pulst indicative present second-person
- pulest second-person singular subjunctive
- pulet plural second-person subjunctive
- pulten first-person indicative plural
- pultest indicative preterite second-person
- pultet indicative plural preterite
- pul imperative second-person singular
- habe gepult first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben gepult first-person indicative multiword-construction
- pul! imperative singular
- pule! imperative singular
- pult! imperative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce pulen?
- /ˈpuːlən/
- [ˈpuːlən]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is pulen in German?
pulen appears about once in every 12 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).