volltanken
German, verb
volltanken is spelled V-O-L-L-T-A-N-K-E-N (10 letters) and appears about once in every 6 million words in written German, the 127,251st most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Volltanken is a German verb meaning “to fill up (i.e. with gas)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Volltanken is a different word: “gerund of volltanken”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “Treibstoff in den Tank füllen, bis dieser vollständig gefüllt ist”.
What does volltanken mean in English?
verb
- 1
to fill up (i.e. with gas)
noun
- 1
neutergerund of volltanken
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Treibstoff in den Tank füllen, bis dieser vollständig gefüllt ist 2. sich betrinken
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 volltanken
- tankt voll present singular third-person
- tankte voll past
- vollgetankt participle past
- haben auxiliary
- volltankend participle present
- vollzutanken infinitive infinitive-zu
- tanke voll first-person indicative present
- tanken voll first-person indicative plural
- tankst voll indicative present second-person
- tankest voll second-person singular subjunctive
- tanket voll plural second-person subjunctive
- tankten voll first-person indicative plural
- tanktest voll indicative preterite second-person
- tanktet voll indicative plural preterite
- tank voll! imperative singular
- tanke voll! imperative singular
- tankt voll! imperative plural
- vollgetankt haben active infinitive perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is volltanken in German?
volltanken 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).