betatschen
German, verb/bəˈtatʃn̩/
betatschen is spelled B-E-T-A-T-S-C-H-E-N (10 letters) and appears about once in every 20 million words in written German, the 257,657th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Betatschen is a German verb meaning “paw, feel up” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “jemanden oder etwas wenig feinfühlig/plump mit den Fingern berühren/anfassen”.
What does betatschen mean in English?
verb
- 1
paw, feel up
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 wenig feinfühlig/plump mit den Fingern berühren/anfassen
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 betatschen
- betatscht present singular third-person
- betatschte past
- haben auxiliary
- betatschend participle present
- betatsche first-person indicative present
- betatschst indicative present second-person
- betatschest second-person singular subjunctive
- betatschet plural second-person subjunctive
- betatschten first-person indicative plural
- betatschtest indicative preterite second-person
- betatschtet indicative plural preterite
- betatsch imperative second-person singular
- habe betatscht first-person indicative multiword-construction
- betatsch! imperative singular
- betatsche! imperative singular
- betatscht! imperative plural
- betatscht haben active infinitive perfect
- betatscht werden processual-passive infinitive present
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce betatschen?
- /bəˈtatʃn̩/
- /bəˈtatʃən/
- [bəˈtat͡ʃn̩]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is betatschen in German?
betatschen appears about once in every 20 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).