quasseln
German, verb
quasseln is spelled Q-U-A-S-S-E-L-N (8 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written German, the 87,510th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Quasseln is a German verb meaning “jabber, natter, palaver, yap, gab, jaw, twaddle, rattle on, rabbit on (to talk a lot or talk nonsense)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Quasseln is a different word: “gerund of quasseln”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “viel und gern – vor allem über Unwichtiges oder Dummes – reden”.
What does quasseln mean in English?
verb
- 1
jabber, natter, palaver, yap, gab, jaw, twaddle, rattle on, rabbit on (to talk a lot or talk nonsense)
noun
- 1
neutergerund of quasseln
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. viel und gern – vor allem über Unwichtiges oder Dummes – reden
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 quasseln
- quasselt present singular third-person
- quasselte past
- gequasselt participle past
- haben auxiliary
- quasselnd participle present
- quassle first-person indicative present
- quassele first-person indicative present
- quassel first-person indicative present
- quasselst indicative present second-person
- quasselest second-person singular subjunctive
- quasslest second-person singular subjunctive
- quasselet plural second-person subjunctive
- quasslet plural second-person subjunctive
- quasselten first-person indicative plural
- quasseltest indicative preterite second-person
- quasseltet indicative plural preterite
- quassele! imperative singular
- quassel! imperative singular
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to quasseln
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is quasseln in German?
quasseln 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).