glotzen
German, verb
glotzen is spelled G-L-O-T-Z-E-N (7 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written German, the 44,523rd most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Glotzen is a German verb meaning “to stare, gape, gawk, goggle (eyes)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Glotzen is a different word: “plural of Glotze”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “starr blicken, geistesabwesend mit weit offenen Augen vor sich hinsehen”.
What does glotzen mean in English?
verb
- 1
colloquialto stare, gape, gawk, goggle (eyes)
noun
- 1
plural of Glotze
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. starr blicken, geistesabwesend mit weit offenen Augen vor sich hinsehen 2. etwas (uninteressiert) im Fernsehen verfolgen
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 glotzen
- glotzt present singular third-person
- glotzte past
- geglotzt participle past
- haben auxiliary
- glotzend participle present
- glotze first-person indicative present
- glotzest second-person singular subjunctive
- glotzet plural second-person subjunctive
- glotzten first-person indicative plural
- glotztest indicative preterite second-person
- glotztet indicative plural preterite
- glotz imperative second-person singular
- habe geglotzt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben geglotzt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- glotz! imperative singular
- glotzt! imperative plural
- geglotzt haben active infinitive perfect
- zu glotzen active extended infinitive
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to glotzen
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is glotzen in German?
glotzen appears about once in every 1 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).