luchsen
German, verb
luchsen is spelled L-U-C-H-S-E-N (7 letters) and appears about once in every 16 million words in written German, the 225,828th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Luchsen is a German verb meaning “to gaze, to peer” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Luchsen is a different word: “dative plural of Luchs”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “sehr aufmerksam aber vorsichtig beobachten”.
What does luchsen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to gaze, to peer
noun
- 1
masculinedative plural of Luchs
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. sehr aufmerksam aber vorsichtig beobachten 2. auf clevere, listige Art aneignen
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 luchsen
- luchst present singular third-person
- luchste past
- geluchst participle past
- haben auxiliary
- luchsend participle present
- luchse first-person indicative present
- luchsest second-person singular subjunctive
- luchset plural second-person subjunctive
- luchsten first-person indicative plural
- luchstest indicative preterite second-person
- luchstet indicative plural preterite
- luchs imperative second-person singular
- habe geluchst first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben geluchst first-person indicative multiword-construction
- luchs! imperative singular
- luchse! imperative singular
- luchst! imperative plural
- geluchst haben active infinitive perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is luchsen in German?
luchsen appears about once in every 16 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).