gebrauchen
German, verb
gebrauchen is spelled G-E-B-R-A-U-C-H-E-N (10 letters) and appears 15 times per million words in written German, the 4,979th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Gebrauchen is a German verb meaning “to use” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). On this page, Gebräuchen is a different word: “dative plural of Gebrauch”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “etwas verwenden, benutzen”.
What does gebrauchen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to use
noun
- 1
masculinedative plural of Gebrauch
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. etwas verwenden, benutzen
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 gebrauchen
- gebraucht present singular third-person
- gebrauchte past
- haben auxiliary
- gebrauchend participle present
- gebrauche first-person indicative present
- gebrauchst indicative present second-person
- gebrauchest second-person singular subjunctive
- gebrauchet plural second-person subjunctive
- gebrauchten first-person indicative plural
- gebrauchtest indicative preterite second-person
- gebrauchtet indicative plural preterite
- gebrauch imperative second-person singular
- habe gebraucht first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben gebraucht first-person indicative multiword-construction
- gebrauche! imperative singular
- gebraucht! imperative plural
- gebraucht haben active infinitive perfect
- zu gebrauchen active extended infinitive
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is gebrauchen in German?
gebrauchen appears 15 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).