durchwursteln
German, verb/ˈdʊʁçˌvʊʁstəln/
durchwursteln is a German verb meaning “to muddle through, to scrape by” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
What does durchwursteln mean in English?
verb
- 1
colloquialto muddle through, to scrape by
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Forms of durchwursteln
- wurstelt durch present singular third-person
- wurstelte durch past
- durchgewurstelt participle past
- haben auxiliary
- durchwurstelnd participle present
- durchzuwursteln infinitive infinitive-zu
- wurstle durch first-person indicative present
- wurstele durch first-person indicative present
- wurstel durch first-person indicative present
- wursteln durch first-person indicative plural
- wurstelst durch indicative present second-person
- wurstelest durch second-person singular subjunctive
- wurstlest durch second-person singular subjunctive
- wurstelet durch plural second-person subjunctive
- wurstlet durch plural second-person subjunctive
- wurstelten durch first-person indicative plural
- wursteltest durch indicative preterite second-person
- wursteltet durch indicative plural preterite
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce durchwursteln?
- /ˈdʊʁçˌvʊʁstəln/
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is durchwursteln in German?
durchwursteln appears about once in every 33 million words in written German.
durchwursteln0.0010.010.11101001,00010,000
rarerper million words of written Germanmore common
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).