auskaufen
German, verb
auskaufen is spelled A-U-S-K-A-U-F-E-N (9 letters) and appears about once in every 59 million words in written German, the 470,264th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Auskaufen is a German verb meaning “to buy off, buy out” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Auskaufen is a different word: “gerund of auskaufen”.
What does auskaufen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to buy off, buy out
- 2
to buy up
noun
- 1
neutergerund of auskaufen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Forms of auskaufen
- kauft aus present singular third-person
- kaufte aus past
- ausgekauft participle past
- haben auxiliary
- auskaufend participle present
- auszukaufen infinitive infinitive-zu
- kaufe aus first-person indicative present
- kaufen aus first-person indicative plural
- kaufst aus indicative present second-person
- kaufest aus second-person singular subjunctive
- kaufet aus plural second-person subjunctive
- kauften aus first-person indicative plural
- kauftest aus indicative preterite second-person
- kauftet aus indicative plural preterite
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is auskaufen in German?
auskaufen appears about once in every 59 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).