fluchen
German, verb
fluchen is spelled F-L-U-C-H-E-N (7 letters) and appears 2.0 times per million words in written German, the 23,884th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Fluchen is a German verb meaning “to swear, to curse” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). On this page, Flüchen is a different word: “dative plural of Fluch”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “Flüche/Verwünschungen ausstoßen”.
What does fluchen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to swear, to curse
noun
- 1
masculinedative plural of Fluch
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Flüche/Verwünschungen ausstoßen 2. drastisch über etwas/jemanden schimpfen, sich erregt negativ äußern
noun: 1. Äußerung eines Fluchs/von Flüchen/Verwünschungen 2. derbes/heftiges Schimpfen 3. Handlung, seinen Ärger/Zorn heftig zu äußern
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 fluchen
- flucht present singular third-person
- fluchte past
- geflucht participle past
- haben auxiliary
- fluchend participle present
- fluche first-person indicative present
- fluchst indicative present second-person
- fluchest second-person singular subjunctive
- fluchet plural second-person subjunctive
- fluchten first-person indicative plural
- fluchtest indicative preterite second-person
- fluchtet indicative plural preterite
- fluch imperative second-person singular
- habe geflucht first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben geflucht first-person indicative multiword-construction
- fluche! imperative singular
- fluch! imperative singular
- flucht! imperative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to fluchen
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is fluchen in German?
fluchen appears 2.0 times per million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).