seihen
German, verb[ˈzaɪ̯ən]
seihen is spelled S-E-I-H-E-N (6 letters) and appears about once in every 22 million words in written German, the 271,406th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Seihen is a German verb meaning “to filter, to sift, to strain” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “etwas durch ein Filter geben”.
What does seihen mean in English?
verb
- 1
Austriato filter, to sift, to strain
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. etwas durch ein Filter geben
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 seihen
- seiht present singular third-person
- seihte past
- geseiht participle past
- haben auxiliary
- seihend participle present
- seihe first-person indicative present
- seihst indicative present second-person
- seihest second-person singular subjunctive
- seihet plural second-person subjunctive
- seihten first-person indicative plural
- seihtest indicative preterite second-person
- seihtet indicative plural preterite
- seih imperative second-person singular
- habe geseiht first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben geseiht first-person indicative multiword-construction
- seih! imperative singular
- seihe! imperative singular
- seiht! imperative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce seihen?
- [ˈzaɪ̯ən]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is seihen in German?
seihen appears about once in every 22 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).