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Words of New Poems · 208 headwords
Each word with its meanings, its forms, and the lines it stands in.
Fahne
banners; flag 3 times
Fahnen, Fahne
noun, accusative, feminine, singular; noun, genitive, feminine, plural; noun, accusative, feminine, plural
fahren
drove; struck 3 times
fuhr, fuhren, fuhren–
verb, past, indicative, third-person, singular; verb, past, indicative, third-person, plural; verb, past, indicative, first-person, plural
Fahrt
voyage; voyages; drive 3 times
Fahrt, Fahrten
noun, accusative, feminine, singular; noun, dative, feminine, plural
Falke
falcons; falcon twice
Falken
noun, dative, masculine, plural; noun, genitive, masculine, singular
'um...jungen Falken willen' (spanning two lines) = 'for the sake of the anxious young falcon.'
Fall
fall 4 times
Fall, Falles, Kall
noun, dative, masculine, singular; noun, genitive, masculine, singular
Genitive of manner: 'zagen Falles' = 'with a timid fall,' an archaic construction describing how the boys came down.
fallen
fall; fell; falls 25 times
fallen, fiel, fällt, fiele, fielen
verb, infinitive; verb, past, indicative, third-person, singular; verb, present, indicative, third-person, singular
Falte
folds 4 times
Falten
noun, genitive, feminine, plural; noun, dative, feminine, plural
fangen
caught; catches 3 times
fingen, finge, fängt
verb, past, indicative, third-person, plural; verb, past, subjunctive, third-person, singular; verb, present, indicative, third-person, singular
Subjunctive II (irrealis) form of fangen; here part of the separable verb einfangen, split with 'ein' at the end of the next line.
fassen
be grasped; held; seize 10 times
fassen, faßte, fasse, fassen–, faßt, gefaßt
verb, infinitive; verb, present, subjunctive, third-person, singular; verb, present, indicative, third-person, singular
Subjunctive I, completing the 'als ob' clause begun in the line above.
fassungsohne
without composure once
fassungsohne
Rilke's coinage, reversing the ordinary compound 'fassungslos' (composure-less) to 'fassungs-ohne' for the rhyme.
fast
almost; all but 32 times
fast, Fast
Federspiel
falconry once
Federspieles
'Federspiel' (lit. 'feather-play') is falconry; 'des hohen Federspieles' = 'of the high sport of falconry.'
fehl
astray once
fehl
'fehlgehen' (to lose one's way) is a separable verb; 'fehl' is its detached prefix.
feien
ward once
feien
Archaic verb meaning to protect by magic/charm (survives in 'gefeit sein gegen', to be immune to).
feierlich
solemn; solemn, festive 3 times
feierlichen, feierlich
adjective, dative, neuter, singular; adjective, predicate
Felsen
rock; rocks twice
Felsen
noun, dative, masculine, singular; noun, nominative, masculine, singular
Felsen is singular here ("der Felsen" = a boulder), matching the singular verb war; the translation pluralizes to "rocks" for natural English.
Fenster
windows; window 12 times
Fenster, Fenstern, Fenster–
noun, accusative, neuter, singular; noun, nominative, neuter, plural; noun, accusative, neuter, plural
object of 'hinter' from the previous line: 'hinter ... erhellten Fenstern' = 'behind ... lit windows'.
Fensterrose
rose window; rose windows 3 times
Fensterrose, Fensterrosen
noun, dative, feminine, singular; noun, nominative, feminine, plural
fern
distant; far; far away 18 times
fern, ferne, fernen, fernes, Fernem, Fernes, Fern, ferner and 1 more
adverb; adjective, nominative, neuter, singular; noun, dative, neuter, singular
Ferne
distance; distances; afar 9 times
Ferne, Fernen, ferne
noun, dative, feminine, singular; noun, accusative, feminine, plural; noun, nominative, feminine, singular
ferne
afar 6 times
ferne
noun, dative, feminine, singular; adverb
fertig
finished; ready 3 times
fertig
adjective (predicate, uninflected); adjective, predicate; adverb
Fertigsein
finishing once
Fertigsein
Nominalized infinitives formed with 'sein' are always neuter (das Sein, das Dasein, das Fertigsein) — the same rule is already correctly applied to Hingegebensein elsewhere in this output; masculine here is inconsistent.
fest
firm; tighter; fortified 5 times
festen, fester, festes
adjective, nominative, neuter, singular; adjective, dative, feminine, singular; adjective, dative, masculine, plural
feucht
damp; moist 6 times
feucht, feuchter, feuchte
adjective; adverb; adjective, accusative, neuter, plural
Feuer
fire 3 times
Feuer
Fieber
fever; fevers 3 times
Fieber
noun, nominative, neuter, plural; noun, nominative, neuter, singular; noun, accusative, neuter, singular
Figur
figure; form; figurine 5 times
Figur, Figuren
noun, nominative, feminine, singular; noun, genitive, feminine, singular; noun, accusative, feminine, singular
'voll' governs a bare (uninflected) genitive here, a poetic construction: 'voll Figur' = 'full of form'.
finden
found; find; would find 20 times
fand, finden, finde, fänden, fände, findet, gefunden, fanden
verb, past, indicative, third-person, singular; verb, present, indicative, first-person, singular; verb, infinitive
finster
dark; grim 3 times
finster
adverb; adjective, nominative, masculine, singular; adjective
Fisch
fish 3 times
Fische
noun, genitive, plural; noun, genitive, masculine, plural; noun, accusative, masculine, plural
flach
shallow; flat 4 times
flache, flachem, flachen
adjective, nominative, masculine, plural; adjective, dative, neuter, singular; adjective, nominative, feminine, singular
flasken
slack once
flasken
Rare/dialectal Rilke word, roughly 'slack, flabby' — describes the drooping tops of the poppy stems; not a standard dictionary adjective.
fleckig
spattered once
fleckig
'fleckig' predicatively describes 'der eine' (the person in the parenthetical), not any verb — there is no verb nearby for it to modify adverbially.
fliegend
flying 3 times
fliegend, fliegende
adverb; adjective, accusative, neuter, plural
fliehen
fled; flee 3 times
floh, fliehn
verb, past, indicative, third-person, singular; verb, infinitive
spaCy mis-tagged this elided infinitive (fliehn = fliehen) as a dative noun.
fließend
flowing water once
Fließendem
Nominalized adjective: 'in Fließendem' = 'in something flowing', i.e. flowing water, left implicit.
flimmern
flicker; would shimmer twice
flimmern, flimmerte
verb, present, indicative, third-person, plural; verb, past, subjunctive, third-person, singular
'warum siehst du...die Falter flimmern um den hohen Phlox' is a perception (AcI-style) construction spanning the two segments ('watch the butterflies flicker'); flimmern is the complement of siehst (s4-l2), not an independent main verb — 'siehst' has no other object.
fluchen
curses; curse 3 times
flucht, fluchen
verb, present, indicative, third-person, singular; verb, present, indicative, third-person, plural
Flut
flood; wave; tide 7 times
Flut, Fluten
noun, nominative, feminine, singular; noun, accusative, feminine, singular; noun, accusative, feminine, plural
Fluß
river; stream; rivers 6 times
Fluß, Flüssen
noun, nominative, masculine, singular; noun, accusative, masculine, singular; noun, dative, masculine, singular
'X um X' is an idiom for endless repetition: 'X upon X.'
flügelschlagend
wing-beating twice
flügelschlagende, flügelschlagend
adjective, accusative, neuter, plural; adverb
A Rilke compound ("Flügel" wing + "schlagend" beating) describing the singing as if it were a bird.
folgen
followed; follow; pursued 6 times
folgten, folgen, folgte, folgend
verb, infinitive; verb, past, indicative, third-person, singular; verb, past, indicative, third-person, plural
Form
forms; shape; mould 4 times
Formen, Form
noun, dative, feminine, singular; noun, dative, feminine, plural; noun, nominative, feminine, plural
formen
forms; did you form; form 3 times
formt, formtest, formen
verb, present, indicative, third-person, singular, reflexive; verb, past, indicative, second-person, singular; verb, infinitive
fort
away; on 5 times
fort, fort–
adverb; adverb (separable verb particle of reißen)
fortgehen
to go away; goes off; to depart 7 times
fortzugehn, fortzugehen, fortgeht, fortging
verb, infinitive; verb, present, indicative, third-person, singular; verb, past, indicative, third-person, singular
Fortgeliehne
lent-away thing once
Fortgeliehne
A Rilke coinage: a nominalized past participle meaning literally "a lent-out one" — something loaned out and eventually returned, used figuratively for the woman herself.
fragen
asked; questioning; to ask 4 times
fragten, fragend, fragte, fragen
verb, past, indicative, third-person, plural; adverb; verb, past, indicative, third-person, singular
Frau
women; woman; wives 20 times
Frauen, Frau, Fraun, Frau–
noun, genitive, feminine, plural; noun, nominative, feminine, plural; noun, nominative, feminine, singular
Frauenzimmer
woman once
Frauenzimmer
Archaic/dialectal word for 'woman' (literally 'women's chamber').
freilassen
sets free once
freiläßt–
Old spelling ('ß' for 'ss') of 'freilässt', present tense of 'freilassen', to release.
fremd
strange; foreign; alien 19 times
fremden, fremd, fremdes, Fremd, fremde, Fremdes, Fremde
adverb; adjective, dative, feminine, singular; adjective
fressen
devoured; devours twice
fraß, frißt
verb, past, indicative, third-person, singular; verb, present, indicative, third-person, singular
fressen normally means "to eat" for animals; using it for a human disease is deliberately harsh.
freuen
rejoiced; rejoice; looked forward 5 times
freuten, freuen, freut
verb, past, indicative, third-person, plural; verb, infinitive; verb, present, indicative, third-person, singular
Freuen
gladness once
Freun
Freun is a poetic elision of Freuen ('das Freuen' = rejoicing/gladness), not Freund ('friend').
Freund
friend 3 times
Freund, Freunde
noun, accusative, masculine, singular; noun, dative, masculine, singular
Freundin
friends; sweetheart; beloved 3 times
Freundin, Freundinnen
noun, nominative, feminine, plural; noun, dative, feminine, singular; noun, accusative, feminine, singular
frisch
fresh 3 times
frisch, frischen, frisches
adverb; adjective, accusative, feminine, plural; adjective, accusative, neuter, singular
Frucht
fruit 7 times
Frucht, Früchte, Früchten
noun, dative, feminine, singular; noun, nominative, feminine, singular; noun, accusative, feminine, singular
früh
early; before; soon 8 times
früher, frühe, früh, frühes
adverb; adjective, accusative, feminine, singular; adjective, nominative, masculine, singular
Frühling
spring; springtime 3 times
Frühling, Frühlings
noun, dative, masculine, singular; noun, genitive, masculine, singular; noun, nominative, masculine, singular
furchtbar
terribly; terrible; dreadfully 5 times
furchtbar, furchtbaren
adverb; adjective, dative, masculine, singular; adjective
Fuß
feet 6 times
Füße, Füßen
noun, accusative, masculine, plural; noun, nominative, masculine, plural; noun, dative, masculine, plural
fühlen
feels; feel; felt 26 times
fühlt, fühlen, fühlte, Fühlst, fühlten, fühlst, fühle, Fühlen and 1 more
verb, present, indicative, third-person, singular; verb, present, indicative, second-person, singular; verb, past, indicative, third-person, singular
führen
lead; led; leading 7 times
führen, führend, führte, geführt
verb, present, indicative, third-person, plural; verb, infinitive; adverb
füllen
filled; fills 5 times
füllte, füllt, füllten
verb, past, indicative, third-person, singular; verb, present, indicative, third-person, singular; verb, past, indicative, third-person, plural
für
for; kind of; into 38 times
für
fürstlich
princely; Princely 4 times
fürstlichen, Fürstlich
adjective, dative, neuter, singular; adjective, genitive, neuter, singular; adverb
Seen once or twice
Fach
compartment once
fade
bland once
Faden
thread once
Fahren
journeying once
Falbe
dun horse once
Fallen
ebbing; falling twice
fallend
falling once
falsch
false once
falten
folding once
Faltenmantel
pleated mantle once
Falter
butterflies; moths twice
Farbentiegel
paint-pots once
fatal
fatal once
Faust
fist once
Fächer
fan twice
Fähnchen
little flags once
Fäule
rot; decay twice
Feder
feather once
Feige
fig once
Feigenbaum
fig tree once
fein
fine once
Feld
field twice
Feldzeichen
battle-standard once
Fell
coat; fur twice
Fensternische
window niche; window recess twice
Fensterrahmen
window frame once
Ferme
farmhouses once
fernher
from far off once
fernst
most distant once
Fernste
farthest once
fernverlaufen
strayed far off once
fertig-voll
finished, brimming; finished, full-grown twice
festhalten
to hold onto once
festlich
solemnly once
feststehend
something fixed once
festverschlossen
tight-shut once
Fetzen
scraps; rags twice
Feuersbrunst
conflagration once
Feuerschein
firelight; the firelight twice
Fibel
brooches once
fieberhaft
feverishly once
fiebern
feverishly once
filtern
filter once
Finden
finding once
Finger
finger once
Finsternis
darknesses; darkness twice
firnisklar
varnish-clear once
flackern
flare up once
Flagge
flags once
Flamme
flame twice
flammen
flames once
Flandern
Flanders once
Flanke
flank once
Flaum
down once
Fläche
surface once
flehen
pleads; pleading twice
Flehen
pleading once
Fleisch
flesh once
Flicken
patches once
fliegen
fly; flew twice
Fliegen
flying once
Fliegende
flying once
fließen
flows; flowed twice
Floh
fleas once
Florentiner
Florentine hat once
Flotte
fleet once
Flößer
raftsmen once
Flucht
flight once
Flug
flight twice
Flußbett
riverbeds once
flüchten
flee; fled twice
Flüchtende
fugitive once
Flüchtling
fugitive twice
Flügel
wings; wing twice
Flügelkleinod
winged crest once
Flügelschlag
wingbeat once
flügelschlagen
beating wings once
Flügeltür
folding doors once
Flüssigkeit
liquid once
flüssigklar
fluid-clear once
Flüstern
whispering twice
flüsternd
whispering once
folgend
who follow once
folgsam
obediently once
fortgeben
given away; gives away twice
Fortgehen
going off once
fortgeworfen
the cast-off once
fortlegen
to lay aside once
fortnehmen
taken away once
fortreißen
torn away once
fortrücken
pushed forward once
fortstellen
sets away once
forttreten
drawn back once
fortwährend
forever; continually twice
Frage
questions once
fragil
fragile once
Fragonard
Fragonard once
Fratze
grimace once
frauenhaft
womanly once
frei
free twice
Freie
open air once
Freier
suitor once
freigeben
released once
Freiherrin
Baroness once
freilich
though once
Fremde
strangeness; stranger twice
Fremder
stranger twice
Freude
joy once
freundlich
friendly once
Frieden
peace once
Frische
coolness once
Frist
appointed hour once
froh
glad once
Front
front once
Frost
frost once
frösteln
shivered once
fruchtbar
fruitful once
Fruchtfleisch
fruit-flesh once
Fruchtgewinde
garlands of fruit once
Fruchtrot
fruit-red once
Fruchtstück
fruit once
Frühe
early hour once
Frühgeburt
premature births once
Frühherbstmorgen
early-autumn morning once
Frühlingsbeet
spring flower-beds once
Frühlingsmorgen
spring morning once
Frühwind
early wind once
Furchtbarsein
dreadful being once
Fußfesselring
leg-shackle rings once
Fußgelenk
ankle's; ankles twice
fußlos
footless once
Fühlen
feeling twice
fühlend
feeling once
fühllos
unfeeling once
Fülle
fullness once
fürchten
was afraid once
fürchtend
fearing once
fürder
henceforth once
Fürst
prince's; princes twice
The particulars
- The words
- Every word of the text, parsed: its headword, its form and its meaning in the line. Source text: public domain (Rainer Maria Rilke, died 1926; Neue Gedichte published 1907 and 1908), from Wikisource.
- Translation
- Public-domain German (Rilke, d. 1926). English translation © 2026 1732 Studios, LLC.
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