Graftet

Graftet is the third-person singular present tense form of the German verb graften, used to describe the action of grafting. In German, it functions as “he grafts” or “she grafts” and appears in written and spoken discourse when describing horticultural or anatomical grafting.

In horticulture, grafting is a propagation technique that joins tissues from two plants so they grow as one. A common use is to graft a scion from a cultivar onto a compatible rootstock. The form “er graftet” would appear in sentences such as “Der Gärtner graftet einen Apfelbaum.” In German texts, graften is often used as a technical loanword from English and is encountered mainly in specialized contexts.

Outside German, “graft” in English has several senses: a medical transplant or tissue graft, and metaphorical “graft” meaning corruption or illicit gain. The corresponding English verbs are “to graft” and the present participle “grafting” or the past tense “grafted.” The form “graftet” is not used in standard English.

Alternative German terminology for grafting includes veredeln, especially in common horticultural practice, though graften remains present in some texts and vendor literature.