tackern
German, verb
tackern is spelled T-A-C-K-E-R-N (7 letters) and appears about once in every 6 million words in written German, the 125,379th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Tackern is a German verb meaning “to staple” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Tackern is a different word: “gerund of tackern”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “mit einem Tacker, beziehungsweise mit einem Hefter, Zettel und Ähnliches (an)heften”.
What does tackern mean in English?
verb
- 1
to staple
noun
- 1
neutergerund of tackern
noun
- 1
dative plural of Tacker
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. mit einem Tacker, beziehungsweise mit einem Hefter, Zettel und Ähnliches (an)heften
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 tackern
- tackert present singular third-person
- tackerte past
- getackert participle past
- haben auxiliary
- tackernd participle present
- tackre first-person indicative present
- tackere first-person indicative present
- tacker first-person indicative present
- tackerst indicative present second-person
- tackerest second-person singular subjunctive
- tackrest second-person singular subjunctive
- tackeret plural second-person subjunctive
- tackret plural second-person subjunctive
- tackerten first-person indicative plural
- tackertest indicative preterite second-person
- tackertet indicative plural preterite
- tackere! imperative singular
- tacker! imperative singular
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is tackern in German?
tackern appears about once in every 6 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).