tapen
German, verb/ˈtɛɪ̯pən/
tapen is spelled T-A-P-E-N (5 letters) and appears about once in every 10 million words in written German, the 172,698th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Tapen is a German verb meaning “to tape, to dress or bandage with adhesive tape” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “mit Klebeband fixieren, eine Stütze aus klebendem Verband (Tape) anlegen”.
What does tapen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to tape, to dress or bandage with adhesive tape
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. mit Klebeband fixieren, eine Stütze aus klebendem Verband (Tape) anlegen
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 tapen
- tapt present singular third-person
- tapte past
- getapt participle past
- getaped participle past
- haben auxiliary
- tapend participle present
- tape first-person indicative present
- tapst indicative present second-person
- tapest second-person singular subjunctive
- tapet plural second-person subjunctive
- tapten first-person indicative plural
- taptest indicative preterite second-person
- taptet indicative plural preterite
- tap imperative second-person singular
- habe getapt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- tap! imperative singular
- tape! imperative singular
- tapt! imperative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce tapen?
- /ˈtɛɪ̯pən/
- /ˈteːpən/
- [ˈtɛɪ̯pn̩]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to tapen
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is tapen in German?
tapen appears about once in every 10 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).