sonnen
German, verb
sonnen is spelled S-O-N-N-E-N (6 letters) and appears 3.2 times per million words in written German, the 16,945th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Sonnen is a German verb meaning “to sun, to sunbathe” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Sonnen is a different word: “plural of Sonne”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “sich ruhend von der Sonne bescheinen lassen, um beispielsweise die Wärme zu genießen”.
What does sonnen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to sun, to sunbathe
noun
- 1
plural of Sonne
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. sich ruhend von der Sonne bescheinen lassen, um beispielsweise die Wärme zu genießen 2. dieses etwas selbstgefällig genießen 3. etwas ins Sonnenlicht bringen, um es beispielsweise zu trocknen
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 sonnen
- sonnt present singular third-person
- sonnte past
- gesonnt participle past
- haben auxiliary
- sonnend participle present
- sonne first-person indicative present
- sonnst indicative present second-person
- sonnest second-person singular subjunctive
- sonnet plural second-person subjunctive
- sonnten first-person indicative plural
- sonntest indicative preterite second-person
- sonntet indicative plural preterite
- sonn imperative second-person singular
- habe gesonnt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben gesonnt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- sonn! imperative singular
- sonnt! imperative plural
- gesonnt haben active infinitive perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to sonnen
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is sonnen in German?
sonnen appears 3.2 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).