scannen
German, verb
scannen is spelled S-C-A-N-N-E-N (7 letters) and appears 2.6 times per million words in written German, the 20,214th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Scannen is a German verb meaning “to scan” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Scannen is a different word: “gerund of scannen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “Printmedien mit Hilfe eines Scanners digitalisieren”.
What does scannen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to scan
noun
- 1
neutergerund of scannen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Printmedien mit Hilfe eines Scanners digitalisieren 2. elektronisch abtasten 3. einen Text nicht lesen, sondern nur überfliegen 4. umgangssprachlich: jemanden umwerben
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 scannen
- scannt present singular third-person
- scannte past
- gescannt participle past
- haben auxiliary
- scannend participle present
- scanne first-person indicative present
- scannst indicative present second-person
- scannest second-person singular subjunctive
- scannet plural second-person subjunctive
- scannten first-person indicative plural
- scanntest indicative preterite second-person
- scanntet indicative plural preterite
- scann imperative second-person singular
- habe gescannt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben gescannt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- scanne! imperative singular
- scann! imperative singular
- scannt! imperative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to scannen
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is scannen in German?
scannen 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).