grapschen
German, verb/ˈɡʁapʃən/
grapschen is spelled G-R-A-P-S-C-H-E-N (9 letters) and appears about once in every 5 million words in written German, the 118,498th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Grapschen is a German verb meaning “to grab” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “etwas oder jemanden ergreifen”.
What does grapschen mean in English?
verb
- 1
informalto grab
- 2
informalto grab hold
- 3
informalto make a grab for sth.
- 4
informalto grope (touch closely and sexually)
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. etwas oder jemanden ergreifen 2. etwas rasch ergreifen, etwas an sich raffen 3. (sich) jemanden greifen, jemanden ergreifen 4. schnell nach etwas greifen, schnell irgendwohin greifen
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 grapschen
- grapscht present singular third-person
- grapschte past
- gegrapscht participle past
- haben auxiliary
- grapschend participle present
- grapsche first-person indicative present
- grapschst indicative present second-person
- grapschest second-person singular subjunctive
- grapschet plural second-person subjunctive
- grapschten first-person indicative plural
- grapschtest indicative preterite second-person
- grapschtet indicative plural preterite
- grapsch imperative second-person singular
- habe gegrapscht first-person indicative multiword-construction
- grabschen alternative
- grapsch! imperative singular
- grapsche! imperative singular
- grapscht! imperative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce grapschen?
- /ˈɡʁapʃən/
- [ˈɡʁapʃn̩]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to grapschen
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is grapschen in German?
grapschen appears about once in every 5 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).