trumpfen
German, verb
trumpfen is spelled T-R-U-M-P-F-E-N (8 letters) and appears about once in every 8 million words in written German, the 144,446th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Trumpfen is a German verb meaning “to play the card game trump” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). On this page, Trümpfen is a different word: “dative plural of Trumpf”. With a capital, Trumpfen is a different word: “gerund of trumpfen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “stechen, mit einer Trumpfkarte nehmen”.
What does trumpfen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to play the card game trump
- 2
to trump; to play a trump
- 3
to trump, to beat, to exceed
noun
- 1
masculinedative plural of Trumpf
noun
- 1
neutergerund of trumpfen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. stechen, mit einer Trumpfkarte nehmen 2. einen Vorteil (Trumpf) herausstellen und damit glänzen/gewinnen
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 trumpfen
- trumpft present singular third-person
- trumpfte past
- getrumpft participle past
- haben auxiliary
- trumpfend participle present
- trumpfe first-person indicative present
- trumpfst indicative present second-person
- trumpfest second-person singular subjunctive
- trumpfet plural second-person subjunctive
- trumpften first-person indicative plural
- trumpftest indicative preterite second-person
- trumpftet indicative plural preterite
- trumpf imperative second-person singular
- habe getrumpft first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben getrumpft first-person indicative multiword-construction
- trumpf! imperative singular
- trumpfe! imperative singular
- trumpft! imperative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to trumpfen
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is trumpfen in German?
trumpfen appears about once in every 8 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).