rauben
German, verb
rauben is spelled R-A-U-B-E-N (6 letters) and appears 3.4 times per million words in written German, the 16,394th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Rauben is a German verb meaning “to rob, to steal (criminal act)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Rauben is a different word: “gerund of rauben”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “sich etwas unrechtmäßig und gewaltsam aneignen”.
What does rauben mean in English?
verb
- 1
to rob, to steal (criminal act)
- 2
to rob, to deprive
- 3
to take away
noun
- 1
neutergerund of rauben
noun
- 1
masculinedative plural of Raub
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. sich etwas unrechtmäßig und gewaltsam aneignen
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 rauben
- raubt present singular third-person
- raubte past
- geraubt participle past
- haben auxiliary
- raubend participle present
- raube first-person indicative present
- raubst indicative present second-person
- raubest second-person singular subjunctive
- raubet plural second-person subjunctive
- raubten first-person indicative plural
- raubtest indicative preterite second-person
- raubtet indicative plural preterite
- raub imperative second-person singular
- habe geraubt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben geraubt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- raube! imperative singular
- raubt! imperative plural
- geraubt haben active infinitive perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to rauben
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is rauben in German?
rauben 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).