malochen
German, verb/maˈloːxən/
malochen is spelled M-A-L-O-C-H-E-N (8 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written German, the 82,595th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Malochen is a German verb meaning “to do hard (typically physical) work, to drudge, toil, labour” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “körperlich hart, schwer arbeiten”.
What does malochen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to do hard (typically physical) work, to drudge, toil, labour
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. körperlich hart, schwer arbeiten
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 malochen
- malocht present singular third-person
- malochte past
- haben auxiliary
- malochend participle present
- maloche first-person indicative present
- malochst indicative present second-person
- malochest second-person singular subjunctive
- malochet plural second-person subjunctive
- malochten first-person indicative plural
- malochtest indicative preterite second-person
- malochtet indicative plural preterite
- maloch imperative second-person singular
- habe malocht first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben malocht first-person indicative multiword-construction
- maloche! imperative singular
- malocht! imperative plural
- malocht haben active infinitive perfect
- zu malochen active extended infinitive
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce malochen?
- /maˈloːxən/
- /maˈlɔxən/
- [maˈloːxn̩]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is malochen in German?
malochen 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).