kosen
German, verb/ˈkoːzən/
kosen is spelled K-O-S-E-N (5 letters) and appears about once in every 14 million words in written German, the 205,761st most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Kosen is a German verb meaning “to cuddle” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “zärtlich jemanden streicheln, liebevoll zu jemandem sein, Zärtlichkeiten mit jemandem austauschen”.
What does kosen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to cuddle
- 2
to caress
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. zärtlich jemanden streicheln, liebevoll zu jemandem sein, Zärtlichkeiten mit jemandem austauschen
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 kosen
- kost present singular third-person
- koste past
- gekost participle past
- haben auxiliary
- kosend participle present
- kose first-person indicative present
- kosest second-person singular subjunctive
- koset plural second-person subjunctive
- kosten first-person indicative plural
- kostest indicative preterite second-person
- kostet indicative plural preterite
- kos imperative second-person singular
- habe gekost first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben gekost first-person indicative multiword-construction
- kos! imperative singular
- kose! imperative singular
- kost! imperative plural
- gekost haben active infinitive perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce kosen?
- /ˈkoːzən/
- [ˈkʰoːzn̩]
- [ˈkoːzn̩]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to kosen
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is kosen in German?
kosen appears about once in every 14 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).