anhauchen
German, verb/ˈanˌhaʊ̯xn̩/
anhauchen is spelled A-N-H-A-U-C-H-E-N (9 letters) and appears about once in every 47 million words in written German, the 412,295th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Anhauchen is a German verb meaning “to breathe on” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “gezielt in die Richtung von jemandem oder etwas durch den Mund ausatmen”.
What does anhauchen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to breathe on
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. gezielt in die Richtung von jemandem oder etwas durch den Mund ausatmen 2. jemanden mit groben Worten, barsch zurechtweisen
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 anhauchen
- haucht an present singular third-person
- hauchte an past
- angehaucht participle past
- haben auxiliary
- anhauchend participle present
- anzuhauchen infinitive infinitive-zu
- hauche an first-person indicative present
- hauchen an first-person indicative plural
- hauchst an indicative present second-person
- hauchest an second-person singular subjunctive
- hauchet an plural second-person subjunctive
- hauchten an first-person indicative plural
- hauchtest an indicative preterite second-person
- hauchtet an indicative plural preterite
- hauch an! imperative singular
- hauche an! imperative singular
- haucht an! imperative plural
- angehaucht haben active infinitive perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce anhauchen?
- /ˈanˌhaʊ̯xn̩/
- [ˈanˌhaʊ̯xn̩]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is anhauchen in German?
anhauchen appears about once in every 47 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).