kacken
German, verb/ˈkakən/
kacken is spelled K-A-C-K-E-N (6 letters) and appears 3.1 times per million words in written German, the 17,543rd most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Kacken is a German verb meaning “to shit” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “seinen Darm entleeren”.
What does kacken mean in English?
verb
- 1
to shit
Er geht grad mal kacken
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. seinen Darm entleeren
noun: 1. das Entleeren des Darms, das Ausscheiden von Kot
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 kacken
- kackt present singular third-person
- kackte past
- gekackt participle past
- haben auxiliary
- kackend participle present
- kacke first-person indicative present
- kackst indicative present second-person
- kackest second-person singular subjunctive
- kacket plural second-person subjunctive
- kackten first-person indicative plural
- kacktest indicative preterite second-person
- kacktet indicative plural preterite
- kack imperative second-person singular
- habe gekackt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben gekackt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- kackern variant regional
- kack! imperative singular
- kacke! imperative singular
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce kacken?
- /ˈkakən/
- [ˈkʰakŋ̩]
- [ˈkʰakən]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to kacken
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is kacken in German?
kacken appears 3.1 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).