draufhauen
German, verb
draufhauen is spelled D-R-A-U-F-H-A-U-E-N (10 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written German, the 76,606th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Draufhauen is a German verb meaning “to hit (on) something or someone, to bash someone, to have a go at someone” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Draufhauen is a different word: “gerund of draufhauen”.
What does draufhauen mean in English?
verb
- 1
informalto hit (on) something or someone, to bash someone, to have a go at someone
noun
- 1
neutergerund of draufhauen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Forms of draufhauen
- haut drauf present singular third-person
- haute drauf past
- draufgehauen participle past
- draufgehaut participle past regional
- haben auxiliary
- draufhauend participle present
- draufzuhauen infinitive infinitive-zu
- haue drauf first-person indicative present
- hauen drauf first-person indicative plural
- haust drauf indicative present second-person
- hauest drauf second-person singular subjunctive
- hauet drauf plural second-person subjunctive
- hauten drauf first-person indicative plural
- hautest drauf indicative preterite second-person
- hautet drauf indicative plural preterite
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is draufhauen in German?
draufhauen appears about once in every 3 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).