browsen
German, verb/ˈbʁaʊ̯zn̩/
browsen is spelled B-R-O-W-S-E-N (7 letters) and appears about once in every 8 million words in written German, the 148,565th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Browsen is a German verb meaning “to browse” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “in einer Datenbank nach Daten suchen”.
What does browsen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to browse
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. in einer Datenbank nach Daten suchen 2. mit einer Suchmaschine (Browser) (im Internet) unterwegs sein, ohne konkretes Ziel von Link zu Link springen
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 browsen
- browst present singular third-person
- browste past
- gebrowst participle past
- haben auxiliary
- browsend participle present
- browse first-person indicative present
- browsest second-person singular subjunctive
- browset plural second-person subjunctive
- browsten first-person indicative plural
- browstest indicative preterite second-person
- browstet indicative plural preterite
- brows imperative second-person singular
- habe gebrowst first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben gebrowst first-person indicative multiword-construction
- brows! imperative singular
- browse! imperative singular
- browst! imperative plural
- gebrowst haben auxiliary active infinitive
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce browsen?
- /ˈbʁaʊ̯zn̩/
- [ˈbʁaʊ̯zn̩]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to browsen
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is browsen in German?
browsen appears about once in every 8 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).