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streichen

German, verb

streichen is spelled S-T-R-E-I-C-H-E-N (9 letters) and appears 14 times per million words in written German, the 5,360th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Streichen is a German verb meaning “to stroke” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Streichen is a different word: “gerund of streichen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “Farbe mit einem Pinsel auf einen Untergrund auftragen”.

What does streichen mean in English?

verb

  1. 1

    to stroke

  2. 2

    to cancel; to discard; to delete; to strike out; to cross out

  3. 3

    to spread; to rub; to apply

  4. 4

    to paint

noun

as Streichen
  1. 1

    neutergerund of streichen

noun

as Streichen
  1. 1

    masculinedative plural of Streich

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

How German dictionaries define it

verb: 1. Farbe mit einem Pinsel auf einen Untergrund auftragen 2. mit der Hand oder einem Gegenstand über die Oberfläche eines anderen Gegenstandes gleiten 3. eine Brotscheibe mit Belag versehen 4. einen Text durch Striche als ungültig kennzeichnen

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 streichen

  • streicht present singular third-person
  • strich past
  • gestrichen participle past
  • haben auxiliary
  • 1 strong
  • streichend participle present
  • streiche first-person indicative present
  • streichst indicative present second-person
  • streichest second-person singular subjunctive
  • streichet plural second-person subjunctive
  • strichen first-person indicative plural
  • striche first-person formal rare
  • strichst indicative preterite second-person
  • stricht indicative plural preterite
  • strichest formal rare second-person
  • strichet formal plural rare
  • streich imperative second-person singular
  • streiche! imperative singular

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

English words that translate to streichen

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is streichen in German?

streichen appears 14 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).

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