ausschaben
German, verb
ausschaben is spelled A-U-S-S-C-H-A-B-E-N (10 letters) and appears about once in every 89 million words in written German, the 594,587th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Ausschaben is a German verb meaning “to scrape out something (to make hollow by scraping)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Ausschaben is a different word: “gerund of ausschaben”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “etwas von einer Oberfläche kratzend/schabend entfernen, herausbringen”.
What does ausschaben mean in English?
verb
- 1
to scrape out something (to make hollow by scraping)
noun
- 1
neutergerund of ausschaben
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. etwas von einer Oberfläche kratzend/schabend entfernen, herausbringen 2. den Inhalt von etwas durch [1] befreien
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 ausschaben
- schabt aus present singular third-person
- schabte aus past
- ausgeschabt participle past
- haben auxiliary
- ausschabend participle present
- auszuschaben infinitive infinitive-zu
- schabe aus first-person indicative present
- schaben aus first-person indicative plural
- schabst aus indicative present second-person
- schabest aus second-person singular subjunctive
- schabet aus plural second-person subjunctive
- schabten aus first-person indicative plural
- schabtest aus indicative preterite second-person
- schabtet aus indicative plural preterite
- schab aus! imperative singular
- schabe aus! imperative singular
- schabt aus! imperative plural
- ausgeschabt haben active infinitive perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is ausschaben in German?
ausschaben appears about once in every 89 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).