hauchen
German, verb
hauchen is spelled H-A-U-C-H-E-N (7 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written German, the 82,595th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Hauchen is a German verb meaning “to whisper” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Hauchen is a different word: “dative plural of Hauch”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “sanft und gezielt durch den Mund ausatmen”.
What does hauchen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to whisper
- 2
to breathe out
noun
- 1
masculinedative plural of Hauch
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. sanft und gezielt durch den Mund ausatmen 2. sanft flüstern
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 hauchen
- haucht present singular third-person
- hauchte past
- gehaucht participle past
- haben auxiliary
- hauchend participle present
- hauche first-person indicative present
- hauchst indicative present second-person
- hauchest second-person singular subjunctive
- hauchet plural second-person subjunctive
- hauchten first-person indicative plural
- hauchtest indicative preterite second-person
- hauchtet indicative plural preterite
- hauch imperative second-person singular
- habe gehaucht first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben gehaucht first-person indicative multiword-construction
- hauch! imperative singular
- hauche! imperative singular
- haucht! imperative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to hauchen
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is hauchen in German?
hauchen appears about once in every 3 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).