senken
German, verb
senken is spelled S-E-N-K-E-N (6 letters) and appears 13 times per million words in written German, the 5,816th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Senken is a German verb meaning “to lower” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Senken is a different word: “gerund of senken”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “in eine niedrigere Position bringen”.
What does senken mean in English?
verb
- 1
to lower
noun
- 1
neutergerund of senken
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. in eine niedrigere Position bringen 2. ermäßigen 3. auf einen niedrigeren Wert bringen 4. abwärts bewegen
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 senken
- senkt present singular third-person
- senkte past
- gesenkt participle past
- haben auxiliary
- senkend participle present
- senke first-person indicative present
- senkst indicative present second-person
- senkest second-person singular subjunctive
- senket plural second-person subjunctive
- senkten first-person indicative plural
- senktest indicative preterite second-person
- senktet indicative plural preterite
- senk imperative second-person singular
- habe gesenkt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben gesenkt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- senke! imperative singular
- senkt! imperative plural
- gesenkt haben active infinitive perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to senken
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is senken in German?
senken appears 13 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).