ducken
German, verb/ˈdʊkən/
ducken is spelled D-U-C-K-E-N (6 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written German, the 70,098th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Ducken is a German verb meaning “to duck” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “den Kopf oder Oberkörper nach unten einziehen, um nicht von etwas getroffen oder jemandem gesehen zu werden”.
What does ducken mean in English?
verb
- 1
to duck
Er duckte sich zu Boden und sprang.
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. den Kopf oder Oberkörper nach unten einziehen, um nicht von etwas getroffen oder jemandem gesehen zu werden
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 ducken
- duckt present singular third-person
- duckte past
- geduckt participle past
- haben auxiliary
- duckend participle present
- ducke first-person indicative present
- duckst indicative present second-person
- duckest second-person singular subjunctive
- ducket plural second-person subjunctive
- duckten first-person indicative plural
- ducktest indicative preterite second-person
- ducktet indicative plural preterite
- duck imperative second-person singular
- habe geduckt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben geduckt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- duck! imperative singular
- ducke! imperative singular
- duckt! imperative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce ducken?
- /ˈdʊkən/
- [ˈdʊkən]
- [ˈdʊkŋ̩]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to ducken
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is ducken in German?
ducken appears about once in every 2 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).