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lauschen

German, verb

lauschen is spelled L-A-U-S-C-H-E-N (8 letters) and appears 3.0 times per million words in written German, the 18,198th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Lauschen is a German verb meaning “to listen (to wait for a sound)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). On this page, Läuschen is a different word: “diminutive of Laus”. With a capital, Lauschen is a different word: “gerund of lauschen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “heimlich und aufmerksam einem Gespräch folgen”.

What does lauschen mean in English?

verb

  1. 1

    to listen (to wait for a sound)

  2. 2

    to eavesdrop

  3. 3

    to listen

    Lausch meinem Wunsch – wecke die Macht in meinem Herz.

noun

as Läuschen
  1. 1

    neuterdiminutive of Laus

noun

as Lauschen
  1. 1

    neutergerund of lauschen

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

How German dictionaries define it

verb: 1. heimlich und aufmerksam einem Gespräch folgen 2. aus der Distanz etwas abhören 3. aufmerksam zuhören

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 lauschen

  • lauscht present singular third-person
  • lauschte past
  • gelauscht participle past
  • haben auxiliary
  • lauschend participle present
  • lausche first-person indicative present
  • lauschst indicative present second-person
  • lauschest second-person singular subjunctive
  • lauschet plural second-person subjunctive
  • lauschten first-person indicative plural
  • lauschtest indicative preterite second-person
  • lauschtet indicative plural preterite
  • lausch imperative second-person singular
  • habe gelauscht first-person indicative multiword-construction
  • lausche! imperative singular
  • lausch! imperative singular
  • lauscht! imperative plural
  • gelauscht haben active infinitive perfect

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

English words that translate to lauschen

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

How common is lauschen in German?

lauschen appears 3.0 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).

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