walken
German, verb
walken is spelled W-A-L-K-E-N (6 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written German, the 63,211th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Walken is a German verb meaning “to tan (in leather-making), to full, to walk (in felt-making)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Walken is a different word: “gerund of walken”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “Leder, Häute oder Teig durch kräftiges Kneten geschmeidig machen”.
What does walken mean in English?
verb
- 1
to tan (in leather-making), to full, to walk (in felt-making)
- 2
to knead
- 3
colloquialto beat up
noun
- 1
neutergerund of walken
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Leder, Häute oder Teig durch kräftiges Kneten geschmeidig machen 2. Gewebe durch mechanische Bearbeitung verfilzen 3. Bleche durch Walzen glätten 4. Wäsche beim Waschen kräftig reibend, knetend bearbeiten
verb: 1. den Sport Walking betreiben, mit erhöhter Geschwindigkeit gehen
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 walken
- walkt present singular third-person
- walkte past
- gewalkt participle past
- haben auxiliary
- walkend participle present
- walke first-person indicative present
- walkst indicative present second-person
- walkest second-person singular subjunctive
- walket plural second-person subjunctive
- walkten first-person indicative plural
- walktest indicative preterite second-person
- walktet indicative plural preterite
- walk imperative second-person singular
- habe gewalkt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben gewalkt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- walk! imperative singular
- walke! imperative singular
- walkt! imperative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is walken in German?
walken appears about once in every 2 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).