tadeln
German, verb
tadeln is spelled T-A-D-E-L-N (6 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written German, the 82,595th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Tadeln is a German verb meaning “to blame, to censure, to rebuke, to reprimand, to express one's disapproval of” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Tadeln is a different word: “dative plural of Tadel”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “das Verhalten einer Person bemängeln, kritisieren, etwas nicht gutheißen”.
What does tadeln mean in English?
verb
- 1
to blame, to censure, to rebuke, to reprimand, to express one's disapproval of
noun
- 1
masculinedative plural of Tadel
noun
- 1
neutergerund of tadeln
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. das Verhalten einer Person bemängeln, kritisieren, etwas nicht gutheißen
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 tadeln
- tadelt present singular third-person
- tadelte past
- getadelt participle past
- haben auxiliary
- tadelnd participle present
- tadle first-person indicative present
- tadele first-person indicative present
- tadel first-person indicative present
- tadelst indicative present second-person
- tadelest second-person singular subjunctive
- tadlest second-person singular subjunctive
- tadelet plural second-person subjunctive
- tadlet plural second-person subjunctive
- tadelten first-person indicative plural
- tadeltest indicative preterite second-person
- tadeltet indicative plural preterite
- tadele! imperative singular
- tadelt! imperative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to tadeln
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is tadeln in German?
tadeln appears about once in every 3 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).