zäunen
German, verb
zäunen is spelled Z-Ä-U-N-E-N (6 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written German, the 56,036th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Zäunen is a German verb meaning “to fence in” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Zäunen is a different word: “dative plural of Zaun”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “einen Zaun errichten”.
What does zäunen mean in English?
verb
- 1
archaicto build a fence
- 2
rareto fence in
noun
- 1
masculinedative plural of Zaun
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. einen Zaun errichten 2. einen Zaun ausbessern 3. (ein bestimmtes Areal, ein Grundstück oder dergleichen) mit einem Zaun umgeben/versehen
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 zäunen
- zäunt present singular third-person
- zäunte past
- gezäunt participle past
- haben auxiliary
- zäunend participle present
- zäune first-person indicative present
- zäunst indicative present second-person
- zäunest second-person singular subjunctive
- zäunet plural second-person subjunctive
- zäunten first-person indicative plural
- zäuntest indicative preterite second-person
- zäuntet indicative plural preterite
- zäun imperative second-person singular
- habe gezäunt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben gezäunt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- zäune! imperative singular
- zäunt! imperative plural
- gezäunt haben active infinitive perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is zäunen in German?
zäunen 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).