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latschen

German, verb

latschen is spelled L-A-T-S-C-H-E-N (8 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written German, the 42,412th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Latschen is a German verb meaning “to traipse, trudge” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Latschen is a different word: “alternative form of Latsche f (“slipper”)”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “unmotiviert, nachlässig gehen”.

What does latschen mean in English?

verb

  1. 1

    colloquialto traipse, trudge

noun

as Latschen
  1. 1

    masculinealternative form of Latsche f (“slipper”)

noun

as Latschen
  1. 1

    plural of Latsche f (“slipper”)

  2. 2

    plural of Latsche f (“mountain pine”)

Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How German dictionaries define it

noun: 1. einfacher, flacher, (bequemer, abgetragener) Schuh

verb: 1. unmotiviert, nachlässig gehen

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 latschen

  • latscht present singular third-person
  • latschte past
  • gelatscht participle past
  • sein auxiliary
  • latschend participle present
  • latsche first-person indicative present
  • latschst indicative present second-person
  • latschest second-person singular subjunctive
  • latschet plural second-person subjunctive
  • latschten first-person indicative plural
  • latschtest indicative preterite second-person
  • latschtet indicative plural preterite
  • latsch imperative second-person singular
  • bin gelatscht first-person indicative multiword-construction
  • Latsch variant
  • Latsche variant
  • Latschens genitive singular
  • latsche! imperative singular

Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

English words that translate to latschen

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is latschen in German?

latschen appears about once in every 1 million words in written German.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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