trichtern
German, verb
trichtern is spelled T-R-I-C-H-T-E-R-N (9 letters) and appears about once in every 9 million words in written German, the 163,492nd most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Trichtern is a German verb meaning “synonym of eintrichtern” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Trichtern is a different word: “dative plural of Trichter”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “den Hammer so steil über dem Kopf kreisen lassen, dass Hammer und Stahldraht wie ein Trichter aussehen”.
What does trichtern mean in English?
verb
- 1
synonym of eintrichtern
noun
- 1
masculinedative plural of Trichter
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. den Hammer so steil über dem Kopf kreisen lassen, dass Hammer und Stahldraht wie ein Trichter aussehen 2. durch einen Trichter geben eintrichtern, mit Nachdruck klarmachen
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 trichtern
- trichtert present singular third-person
- trichterte past
- getrichtert participle past
- haben auxiliary
- trichternd participle present
- trichtre first-person indicative present
- trichtere first-person indicative present
- trichter first-person indicative present
- trichterst indicative present second-person
- trichterest second-person singular subjunctive
- trichtrest second-person singular subjunctive
- trichteret plural second-person subjunctive
- trichtret plural second-person subjunctive
- trichterten first-person indicative plural
- trichtertest indicative preterite second-person
- trichtertet indicative plural preterite
- trichter! imperative singular
- trichtere! imperative singular
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to trichtern
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is trichtern in German?
trichtern appears about once in every 9 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).