grüssen
German, verb
grüssen is spelled G-R-Ü-S-S-E-N (7 letters) and appears 11 times per million words in written German, the 6,412th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Grüssen is a German verb meaning “Switzerland and Liechtenstein standard spelling of grüßen” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Grüssen is a different word: “dative plural of Gruss”.
What does grüssen mean in English?
verb
- 1
SwitzerlandSwitzerland and Liechtenstein standard spelling of grüßen
noun
- 1
masculinedative plural of Gruss
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Forms of grüssen
- grüsst present singular third-person
- grüsste past
- gegrüsst participle past
- haben auxiliary
- grüssend participle present
- grüsse first-person indicative present
- grüssest second-person singular subjunctive
- grüsset plural second-person subjunctive
- grüssten first-person indicative plural
- grüsstest indicative preterite second-person
- grüsstet indicative plural preterite
- grüss imperative second-person singular
- habe gegrüsst first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben gegrüsst first-person indicative multiword-construction
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is grüssen in German?
grüssen appears 11 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).