quatschen
German, verb
quatschen is spelled Q-U-A-T-S-C-H-E-N (9 letters) and appears 3.4 times per million words in written German, the 16,394th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Quatschen is a German verb meaning “to talk nonsense” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Quatschen is a different word: “gerund of quatschen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “sich ungezwungen unterhalten, ein lockeres Gespräch führen”.
What does quatschen mean in English?
verb
- 1
colloquialderogatoryto talk nonsense
- 2
colloquialto chatter, babble
noun
- 1
neutergerund of quatschen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. sich ungezwungen unterhalten, ein lockeres Gespräch führen 2. viel (und häufig Unsinn) reden/erzählen
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 quatschen
- quatscht present singular third-person
- quatschte past
- gequatscht participle past
- haben auxiliary
- quatschend participle present
- quatsche first-person indicative present
- quatschst indicative present second-person
- quatschest second-person singular subjunctive
- quatschet plural second-person subjunctive
- quatschten first-person indicative plural
- quatschtest indicative preterite second-person
- quatschtet indicative plural preterite
- quatsch imperative second-person singular
- habe gequatscht first-person indicative multiword-construction
- quatsche! imperative singular
- quatscht! imperative plural
- gequatscht haben active infinitive perfect
- zu quatschen active extended infinitive
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to quatschen
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is quatschen in German?
quatschen appears 3.4 times per million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).