begrabschen
German, verb
begrabschen is spelled B-E-G-R-A-B-S-C-H-E-N (11 letters) and appears about once in every 10 million words in written German, the 172,698th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Begrabschen is a German verb meaning “alternative spelling of begrapschen” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Begrabschen is a different word: “gerund of begrabschen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “jemanden (oder etwas) respektlos mit den Fingern berühren/anfassen, jemanden (ungebeten, unerwünschterweise)…”.
What does begrabschen mean in English?
verb
- 1
alternative spelling of begrapschen
noun
- 1
neutergerund of begrabschen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. jemanden (oder etwas) respektlos mit den Fingern berühren/anfassen, jemanden (ungebeten, unerwünschterweise) sexuell berühren
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 begrabschen
- begrabscht present singular third-person
- begrabschte past
- haben auxiliary
- begrabschend participle present
- begrabsche first-person indicative present
- begrabschst indicative present second-person
- begrabschest second-person singular subjunctive
- begrabschet plural second-person subjunctive
- begrabschten first-person indicative plural
- begrabschtest indicative preterite second-person
- begrabschtet indicative plural preterite
- begrabsch imperative second-person singular
- habe begrabscht first-person indicative multiword-construction
- begrapschen alternative
- begrabsch! imperative singular
- begrabsche! imperative singular
- begrabscht! imperative plural
- begrabscht haben active infinitive perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is begrabschen in German?
begrabschen appears about once in every 10 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).