roden
German, verb
roden is spelled R-O-D-E-N (5 letters) and appears 1.2 times per million words in written German, the 34,034th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Roden is a German verb meaning “to clear (a forest)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Roden is a different word: “gerund of roden”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “einen Wald durch Fällen der Bäume und Ausgraben der Wurzeln urbar machen”.
What does roden mean in English?
verb
- 1
to clear (a forest)
- 2
to make arable
noun
- 1
neutergerund of roden
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. einen Wald durch Fällen der Bäume und Ausgraben der Wurzeln urbar machen 2. einen Baum fällen und seinen Stumpf ausgraben 3. einen Weinberg tief umgraben 4. die reifen Früchte von Nutzpflanzen aus dem Erdboden holen
noun: 1. Vorgang, einen Wald durch Fällen der Bäume und Ausgraben der Wurzeln zu entfernen
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 roden
- rodet present singular third-person
- rodete past
- gerodet participle past
- haben auxiliary
- rodend participle present
- rode first-person indicative present
- rodest indicative present second-person
- rodeten first-person indicative plural
- rodetest indicative preterite second-person
- rodetet indicative plural preterite
- rod imperative second-person singular
- habe gerodet first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben gerodet first-person indicative multiword-construction
- rode! imperative singular
- rod! imperative singular
- rodet! imperative plural
- gerodet haben active infinitive perfect
- gerodet werden processual-passive infinitive present
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to roden
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is roden in German?
roden appears 1.2 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).