Spaten
German, noun
Spaten is spelled S-P-A-T-E-N (6 letters) and appears 19 times per million words in written German, the 4,037th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Spaten is a German masculine noun meaning “spade” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). On this page, späten is a different word: “strong genitive masculine/neuter singular”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “schaufelähnliches Werkzeug zum Umgraben der Erde”.
What does Spaten mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinespade
- 2
colloquialderogatorymasculineidiot, dumbass
adjective
- 1
masculineneuterstrong genitive masculine/neuter singular
- 2
weak/mixed genitive/dative all-gender singular
- 3
masculinestrong/weak/mixed accusative masculine singular
- 4
strong dative plural
- 5
weak/mixed all-case plural
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. schaufelähnliches Werkzeug zum Umgraben der Erde 2. äußerst dummer Mensch
verb: 1. den Boden umgraben
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 Spaten
- Spatens genitive
- spate present
- spatest present
- spatet present
- spatete past
- spat! imperative singular
- spate! imperative singular
- spatet! imperative plural
- gespatet participle-2 perfect
- haben auxiliary perfect
- gespatet haben active infinitive perfect
- gespatet werden processual-passive infinitive present
- gespatet worden sein processual-passive infinitive perfect
- gespatet sein statal-passive infinitive present
- gespatet gewesen sein statal-passive infinitive perfect
- zu spaten active extended infinitive
- gespatet zu haben active extended infinitive
- gespatet zu werden processual-passive extended infinitive
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to Spaten
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Spaten in German?
Spaten appears 19 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).