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staken

German, verb

staken is spelled S-T-A-K-E-N (6 letters) and appears about once in every 14 million words in written German, the 208,435th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Staken is a German verb meaning “to propel a boat with a quant pole” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first/third-person plural preterite of stecken. With a capital, Staken is a different word: “alternative form of Stake (“pole”, especially “quant pole”)”. With an umlaut, stäken is a different word: “first-person plural subjunctive II of stecken”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “ungelenk gehen”.

What does staken mean in English?

verb

  1. 1

    to propel a boat with a quant pole

  2. 2

    dateddated form of staksen (“to walk stiffly”)

verb

  1. 1

    datedfirst/third-person plural preterite of stecken

noun

as Staken
  1. 1

    masculinealternative form of Stake (“pole”, especially “quant pole”)

verb

as stäken
  1. 1

    first-person plural subjunctive II of stecken

noun

as Staken
  1. 1

    feminineplural of Stake

noun

as Staken
  1. 1

    neutergerund of staken

Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How German dictionaries define it

verb: 1. ungelenk gehen 2. ein Boot auf dem Wasser bewegen, indem man es mithilfe einer langen Stocherstange/Stake (Stakholz) vom Grund eines flachen Gewässers abstößt 3. mit einer Heugabel in etwas hineinstechen, z.B. in einen Heuhaufen

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 staken

  • stakt present singular third-person
  • stakte past
  • gestakt participle past
  • sein auxiliary
  • stakend participle present
  • stake first-person indicative present
  • stakst indicative present second-person
  • stakest second-person singular subjunctive
  • staket plural second-person subjunctive
  • stakten first-person indicative plural
  • staktest indicative preterite second-person
  • staktet indicative plural preterite
  • stak imperative second-person singular
  • bin gestakt first-person indicative multiword-construction
  • sind gestakt first-person indicative multiword-construction
  • stak! imperative singular
  • stake! imperative singular
  • stakt! imperative plural

Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How common is staken in German?

staken appears about once in every 14 million words in written German.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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