wallfahren
German, verb
wallfahren is spelled W-A-L-L-F-A-H-R-E-N (10 letters) and appears about once in every 27 million words in written German, the 301,457th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Wallfahren is a German verb meaning “to go on a pilgrimage” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Wallfahren is a different word: “gerund of wallfahren”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “eine Wallfahrt machen”.
What does wallfahren mean in English?
verb
- 1
to go on a pilgrimage
noun
- 1
neutergerund of wallfahren
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. eine Wallfahrt machen
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 wallfahren
- wallfahrt present singular third-person
- wallfahrte past
- gewallfahrt participle past
- sein auxiliary
- wallfahrend participle present
- wallfahre first-person indicative present
- wallfahrst indicative present second-person
- wallfahrest second-person singular subjunctive
- wallfahret plural second-person subjunctive
- wallfahrten first-person indicative plural
- wallfahrtest indicative preterite second-person
- wallfahrtet indicative plural preterite
- wallfahr imperative second-person singular
- bin gewallfahrt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- sind gewallfahrt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- wallfahre! imperative singular
- wallfahrt! imperative plural
- gewallfahrt sein active infinitive perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is wallfahren in German?
wallfahren appears about once in every 27 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).