schaden
German, verb
schaden is spelled S-C-H-A-D-E-N (7 letters) and appears 63 times per million words in written German, the 1,357th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Schaden is a German verb meaning “to hurt, to be harmful” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Schaden is a different word: “damage; harm”. On this page, Schäden is a different word: “plural of Schaden”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “Schaden zufügen”.
What does schaden mean in English?
verb
- 1
to hurt, to be harmful
Es kann nicht schaden, es mal zu versuchen.
- 2
to damage, to harm, to hurt
Der Fehler hat seinem Ruf geschadet.
noun
- 1
masculinedamage; harm
- 2
colloquialinformalmasculinemental problem (in the sense of “crazy”)
noun
- 1
plural of Schaden
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. unerwünschte, negative Auswirkung 2. Beschädigung an einem Gegenstand, auch an einem Körperteil; Defekt, Funktionsbeeinträchtigung 3. ein durch ein Ereignis oder einen Umstand verursachte Beeinträchtigung eines Gutes oder eine Wertminderung des ursprünglichen Zustandes einer Sache
verb: 1. Schaden zufügen
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 schaden
- schadet present singular third-person
- schadete past
- geschadet participle past
- haben auxiliary
- schadend participle present
- schade first-person indicative present
- schadest indicative present second-person
- schadeten first-person indicative plural
- schadetest indicative preterite second-person
- schadetet indicative plural preterite
- schad imperative second-person singular
- habe geschadet first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben geschadet first-person indicative multiword-construction
- Schade variant archaic
- Schäden nominative plural
- Schadens genitive singular
- schade! imperative singular
- schadet! imperative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to schaden
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is schaden in German?
schaden appears 63 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).