grätschen
German, verb
grätschen is spelled G-R-Ä-T-S-C-H-E-N (9 letters) and appears about once in every 13 million words in written German, the 200,239th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Grätschen is a German verb meaning “to straddle” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Grätschen is a different word: “plural of Grätsche”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “die Beine spreizen; die Füße weit seitlich hinausstrecken”.
What does grätschen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to straddle
- 2
to perform a slide tackle
noun
- 1
plural of Grätsche
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. die Beine spreizen; die Füße weit seitlich hinausstrecken 2. einem Gegenspieler aggressiv begegnen
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 grätschen
- grätscht present singular third-person
- grätschte past
- gegrätscht participle past
- haben auxiliary
- grätschend participle present
- grätsche first-person indicative present
- grätschst indicative present second-person
- grätschest second-person singular subjunctive
- grätschet plural second-person subjunctive
- grätschten first-person indicative plural
- grätschtest indicative preterite second-person
- grätschtet indicative plural preterite
- grätsch imperative second-person singular
- habe gegrätscht first-person indicative multiword-construction
- grätsche! imperative singular
- grätscht! imperative plural
- sein auxiliary perfect
- gegrätscht haben active infinitive perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to grätschen
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is grätschen in German?
grätschen appears about once in every 13 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).