ausschalten
German, verb
ausschalten is spelled A-U-S-S-C-H-A-L-T-E-N (11 letters) and appears 5.9 times per million words in written German, the 10,826th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Ausschalten is a German verb meaning “to turn off, to switch off, to power down, to disable (to stop a device or disable its function)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Ausschalten is a different word: “gerund of ausschalten”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “die Funktion eines Gerätes beenden, indem man die Stromzufuhr unterbricht”.
What does ausschalten mean in English?
verb
- 1
to turn off, to switch off, to power down, to disable (to stop a device or disable its function)
- 2
to kill, to terminate, to take out
noun
- 1
neutergerund of ausschalten
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. die Funktion eines Gerätes beenden, indem man die Stromzufuhr unterbricht 2. jemanden außer Gefecht setzen (im Härtefall: töten)
noun: 1. das außer Funktion Setzen
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 ausschalten
- schaltet aus present singular third-person
- schaltete aus past
- ausgeschaltet participle past
- haben auxiliary
- ausschaltend participle present
- auszuschalten infinitive infinitive-zu
- schalte aus first-person indicative present
- schalten aus first-person indicative plural
- schaltest aus indicative present second-person
- schalteten aus first-person indicative plural
- schaltetest aus indicative preterite second-person
- schaltetet aus indicative plural preterite
- schalt aus! imperative singular
- schalte aus! imperative singular
- schaltet aus! imperative plural
- ausgeschaltet haben active infinitive perfect
- ausgeschaltet werden processual-passive infinitive present
- ausgeschaltet worden sein processual-passive infinitive perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is ausschalten in German?
ausschalten appears 5.9 times per million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).