pirschen
German, verb
pirschen is spelled P-I-R-S-C-H-E-N (8 letters) and appears about once in every 17 million words in written German, the 232,034th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Pirschen is a German verb meaning “to stalk particularly game” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Pirschen is a different word: “plural of Pirsch”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “schleichen, sich auf dem Weg zu einem gejagten Tier möglichst geräuschlos vorwärtsbewegen”.
What does pirschen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to stalk particularly game
noun
- 1
plural of Pirsch
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. schleichen, sich auf dem Weg zu einem gejagten Tier möglichst geräuschlos vorwärtsbewegen 2. sich heimlich und möglichst geräuschlos bewegen
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 pirschen
- pirscht present singular third-person
- pirschte past
- gepirscht participle past
- haben auxiliary
- sein auxiliary
- haben or sein auxiliary
- pirschend participle present
- pirsche first-person indicative present
- pirschst indicative present second-person
- pirschest second-person singular subjunctive
- pirschet plural second-person subjunctive
- pirschten first-person indicative plural
- pirschtest indicative preterite second-person
- pirschtet indicative plural preterite
- pirsch imperative second-person singular
- pirsch! imperative singular
- pirsche! imperative singular
- pirscht! imperative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is pirschen in German?
pirschen appears about once in every 17 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).