strafen
German, verb
strafen is spelled S-T-R-A-F-E-N (7 letters) and appears 11 times per million words in written German, the 6,523rd most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Strafen is a German verb meaning “to punish” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Strafen is a different word: “gerund of strafen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “eine unangenehme Erfahrung machen lassen, als Folge einer nicht erwünschten Handlung; eine Strafe auferlegen…”.
What does strafen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to punish
noun
- 1
neutergerund of strafen
noun
- 1
plural of Strafe
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. eine unangenehme Erfahrung machen lassen, als Folge einer nicht erwünschten Handlung; eine Strafe auferlegen; jemanden strafen mit etwas
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 strafen
- straft present singular third-person
- strafte past
- gestraft participle past
- haben auxiliary
- strafend participle present
- strafe first-person indicative present
- strafst indicative present second-person
- strafest second-person singular subjunctive
- strafet plural second-person subjunctive
- straften first-person indicative plural
- straftest indicative preterite second-person
- straftet indicative plural preterite
- straf imperative second-person singular
- habe gestraft first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben gestraft first-person indicative multiword-construction
- strafe! imperative singular
- straf! imperative singular
- straft! imperative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to strafen
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is strafen in German?
strafen appears 11 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).