lausen
German, verb
lausen is spelled L-A-U-S-E-N (6 letters) and appears about once in every 6 million words in written German, the 121,881st most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Lausen is a German verb meaning “to louse” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). On this page, Läusen is a different word: “dative plural of Laus”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “(jemanden) mit der Hand entlausen (von Läusen befreien)”.
What does lausen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to louse
noun
- 1
femininedative plural of Laus
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. (jemanden) mit der Hand entlausen (von Läusen befreien) 2. (einem Anderen) das Fell pflegen (dabei werden, falls vorhanden, Hautparasiten, ansonsten andere Verunreinigungen entfernt) 3. einen Pelz von der Haarseite aus auf Schadstellen prüfen
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 lausen
- laust present singular third-person
- lauste past
- gelaust participle past
- haben auxiliary
- lausend participle present
- lause first-person indicative present
- lausest second-person singular subjunctive
- lauset plural second-person subjunctive
- lausten first-person indicative plural
- laustest indicative preterite second-person
- laustet indicative plural preterite
- laus imperative second-person singular
- habe gelaust first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben gelaust first-person indicative multiword-construction
- laus! imperative singular
- lause! imperative singular
- laust! imperative plural
- gelaust haben active infinitive perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to lausen
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is lausen in German?
lausen appears about once in every 6 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).