scherzen
German, verb
scherzen is spelled S-C-H-E-R-Z-E-N (8 letters) and appears 1.3 times per million words in written German, the 32,981st most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Scherzen is a German verb meaning “to joke; to jest; to frolic” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Scherzen is a different word: “dative plural of Scherz”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “Späße machen, einen Scherz machen, es nicht ernst meinen”.
What does scherzen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to joke; to jest; to frolic
noun
- 1
masculinedative plural of Scherz
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Späße machen, einen Scherz machen, es nicht ernst meinen
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 scherzen
- scherzt present singular third-person
- scherzte past
- gescherzt participle past
- haben auxiliary
- scherzend participle present
- scherze first-person indicative present
- scherzest second-person singular subjunctive
- scherzet plural second-person subjunctive
- scherzten first-person indicative plural
- scherztest indicative preterite second-person
- scherztet indicative plural preterite
- scherz imperative second-person singular
- habe gescherzt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben gescherzt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- scherze! imperative singular
- scherzt! imperative plural
- gescherzt haben active infinitive perfect
- zu scherzen active extended infinitive
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to scherzen
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is scherzen in German?
scherzen appears 1.3 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).