austauschen
German, verb
austauschen is spelled A-U-S-T-A-U-S-C-H-E-N (11 letters) and appears 7.8 times per million words in written German, the 8,702nd most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Austauschen is a German verb meaning “to exchange” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Austauschen is a different word: “dative plural of Austausch”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “sich wechselseitig Gleichartiges geben”.
What does austauschen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to exchange
- 2
to replace; to substitute
noun
- 1
masculinedative plural of Austausch
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. sich wechselseitig Gleichartiges geben 2. etwas Vorhandenes durch etwas Neues/Anderes ersetzen 3. unterschiedliche Sichtweisen besprechen
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 austauschen
- tauscht aus present singular third-person
- tauschte aus past
- ausgetauscht participle past
- haben auxiliary
- austauschend participle present
- auszutauschen infinitive infinitive-zu
- tausche aus first-person indicative present
- tauschen aus first-person indicative plural
- tauschst aus indicative present second-person
- tauschest aus second-person singular subjunctive
- tauschet aus plural second-person subjunctive
- tauschten aus first-person indicative plural
- tauschtest aus indicative preterite second-person
- tauschtet aus indicative plural preterite
- tausch aus! imperative singular
- tausche aus! imperative singular
- tauscht aus! imperative plural
- ausgetauscht haben active infinitive perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to austauschen
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is austauschen in German?
austauschen appears 7.8 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).