runterschlucken
German, verb
runterschlucken is spelled R-U-N-T-E-R-S-C-H-L-U-C-K-E-N (15 letters) and appears about once in every 5 million words in written German, the 113,526th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Runterschlucken is a German verb meaning “to swallow” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
What does runterschlucken mean in English?
verb
- 1
colloquialto swallow
Er hat die Möhren mal ganz schnell runtergeschluckt.
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Forms of runterschlucken
- schluckt runter present singular third-person
- schluckte runter past
- runtergeschluckt participle past
- haben auxiliary
- runterschluckend participle present
- runterzuschlucken infinitive infinitive-zu
- schlucke runter first-person indicative present
- schlucken runter first-person indicative plural
- schluckst runter indicative present second-person
- schluckest runter second-person singular subjunctive
- schlucket runter plural second-person subjunctive
- schluckten runter first-person indicative plural
- schlucktest runter indicative preterite second-person
- schlucktet runter indicative plural preterite
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce runterschlucken?
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is runterschlucken in German?
runterschlucken appears about once in every 5 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).