murksen
German, verb/ˈmʊʁksn̩/
murksen is spelled M-U-R-K-S-E-N (7 letters) and appears about once in every 91 million words in written German, the 602,508th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Murksen is a German verb meaning “to botch” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “unfähig oder schlampig vorgehen, insbesondere bei der Arbeit, so dass nichts oder nichts Rechtes zuwege…”.
What does murksen mean in English?
verb
- 1
colloquialderogatoryto botch
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. unfähig oder schlampig vorgehen, insbesondere bei der Arbeit, so dass nichts oder nichts Rechtes zuwege gebracht wird oder doch nicht in annehmbarer Zeit
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 murksen
- murkst present singular third-person
- murkste past
- gemurkst participle past
- haben auxiliary
- murksend participle present
- murkse first-person indicative present
- murksest second-person singular subjunctive
- murkset plural second-person subjunctive
- murksten first-person indicative plural
- murkstest indicative preterite second-person
- murkstet indicative plural preterite
- murks imperative second-person singular
- habe gemurkst first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben gemurkst first-person indicative multiword-construction
- murkse! imperative singular
- murkst! imperative plural
- gemurkst haben active infinitive perfect
- zu murksen active extended infinitive
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce murksen?
- /ˈmʊʁksn̩/
- [ˈmʊʁksn̩]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is murksen in German?
murksen appears about once in every 91 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).