kucken
German, verb
kucken is a German verb meaning “alternative form of gucken (“to look”)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). On this page, Kücken is a different word: “alternative form of Küken (“chick”)”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “seine Augen auf etwas richten”.
What does kucken mean in English?
verb
- 1
colloquialalternative form of gucken (“to look”)
noun
- 1
Austrianeuteralternative form of Küken (“chick”)
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. seine Augen auf etwas richten 2. ein bestimmtes Gesicht machen
noun: 1. frisch geschlüpfter Vogel
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 kucken
- Kückens genitive
- kuckt present singular third-person
- kuckte past
- gekuckt participle past
- haben auxiliary
- kuckend participle present
- kucke first-person indicative present
- kuckst indicative present second-person
- kuckest second-person singular subjunctive
- kucket plural second-person subjunctive
- kuckten first-person indicative plural
- kucktest indicative preterite second-person
- kucktet indicative plural preterite
- kuck imperative second-person singular
- gucken variant
- kuck! imperative singular
- kucke! imperative singular
- kuckt! imperative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to kucken
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is kucken in German?
kucken appears about once in every 1 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).