gaunern
German, verb
gaunern is spelled G-A-U-N-E-R-N (7 letters) and appears about once in every 7 million words in written German, the 134,701st most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Gaunern is a German verb meaning “to cheat, swindle” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Gaunern is a different word: “dative plural of Gauner”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “(geringe) Straftaten, Betrügereien und Eigentumsdelikte (Gaunereien) verüben”.
What does gaunern mean in English?
verb
- 1
to cheat, swindle
noun
- 1
masculinedative plural of Gauner
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. (geringe) Straftaten, Betrügereien und Eigentumsdelikte (Gaunereien) verüben
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 gaunern
- gaunert present singular third-person
- gaunerte past
- gegaunert participle past
- haben auxiliary
- gaunernd participle present
- gaunre first-person indicative present
- gaunere first-person indicative present
- gauner first-person indicative present
- gaunerst indicative present second-person
- gaunerest second-person singular subjunctive
- gaunrest second-person singular subjunctive
- gauneret plural second-person subjunctive
- gaunret plural second-person subjunctive
- gaunerten first-person indicative plural
- gaunertest indicative preterite second-person
- gaunertet indicative plural preterite
- gauner! imperative singular
- gaunere! imperative singular
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is gaunern in German?
gaunern appears about once in every 7 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).