plauschen
German, verb
plauschen is spelled P-L-A-U-S-C-H-E-N (9 letters) and appears about once in every 8 million words in written German, the 152,733rd most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Plauschen is a German verb meaning “to chat casually with a friend” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). On this page, Pläuschen is a different word: “dative plural of Plausch”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “sich in vertraulicher Atmosphäre unterhalten”.
What does plauschen mean in English?
verb
- 1
Austriato chat casually with a friend
- 2
Austriato exaggerate, lie
- 3
Austriato blab, gossip; to tell secrets
noun
- 1
masculinedative plural of Plausch
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. sich in vertraulicher Atmosphäre unterhalten 2. übertreiben, die Tatsachen verdrehen 3. Geheimnisse ausplaudern, verraten
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 plauschen
- plauscht present singular third-person
- plauschte past
- geplauscht participle past
- haben auxiliary
- plauschend participle present
- plausche first-person indicative present
- plauschst indicative present second-person
- plauschest second-person singular subjunctive
- plauschet plural second-person subjunctive
- plauschten first-person indicative plural
- plauschtest indicative preterite second-person
- plauschtet indicative plural preterite
- plausch imperative second-person singular
- habe geplauscht first-person indicative multiword-construction
- plausch! imperative singular
- plausche! imperative singular
- plauscht! imperative plural
- geplauscht haben active infinitive perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is plauschen in German?
plauschen appears about once in every 8 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).