toasten
German, verb
toasten is spelled T-O-A-S-T-E-N (7 letters) and appears about once in every 6 million words in written German, the 120,168th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Toasten is a German verb meaning “to toast (to lightly cook in a kitchen appliance)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Toasten is a different word: “gerund of toasten”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “etwas rösten, insbesondere Brot”.
What does toasten mean in English?
verb
- 1
to toast (to lightly cook in a kitchen appliance)
- 2
to toast (to engage in a salutation and/or accompanying raising of glasses while drinking alcohol in honor of someone or something)
noun
- 1
neutergerund of toasten
noun
- 1
masculinedative plural of Toast
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. etwas rösten, insbesondere Brot 2. einen Trinkspruch (Toast) aussprechen, eine Tischrede halten
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 toasten
- toastet present singular third-person
- toastete past
- getoastet participle past
- haben auxiliary
- toastend participle present
- toaste first-person indicative present
- toastest indicative present second-person
- toasteten first-person indicative plural
- toastetest indicative preterite second-person
- toastetet indicative plural preterite
- toast imperative second-person singular
- habe getoastet first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben getoastet first-person indicative multiword-construction
- toast! imperative singular
- toaste! imperative singular
- toastet! imperative plural
- getoastet haben active infinitive perfect
- getoastet werden processual-passive infinitive present
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to toasten
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is toasten in German?
toasten 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).