kuschen
German, verb/ˈkʊʃn̩/
kuschen is spelled K-U-S-C-H-E-N (7 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written German, the 85,035th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Kuschen is a German verb meaning “to lie down” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “‚vor jemandem kuschen:‘ sich unterwürfig verhalten”.
What does kuschen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to lie down
- 2
to knuckle under, to kowtow (to act submissively)
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. ‚vor jemandem kuschen:‘ sich unterwürfig verhalten 2. sich ruhig hinlegen
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 kuschen
- kuscht present singular third-person
- kuschte past
- gekuscht participle past
- haben auxiliary
- kuschend participle present
- kusche first-person indicative present
- kuschst indicative present second-person
- kuschest second-person singular subjunctive
- kuschet plural second-person subjunctive
- kuschten first-person indicative plural
- kuschtest indicative preterite second-person
- kuschtet indicative plural preterite
- kusch imperative second-person singular
- habe gekuscht first-person indicative multiword-construction
- kusch! imperative singular
- kusche! imperative singular
- kuscht! imperative plural
- gekuscht haben active infinitive perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce kuschen?
- /ˈkʊʃn̩/
- [ˈkʊʃn̩]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to kuschen
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is kuschen in German?
kuschen 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).