schlauchen
German, verb
schlauchen is spelled S-C-H-L-A-U-C-H-E-N (10 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written German, the 48,795th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Schlauchen is a German verb meaning “to wear out (to exhaust)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). On this page, Schläuchen is a different word: “dative plural of Schlauch”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “jemandem viel abverlangen, großen Anforderungen aussetzen”.
What does schlauchen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to wear out (to exhaust)
- 2
to lead through a hose (e.g. beer through a beer bong)
- 3
to live off
noun
- 1
masculinedative plural of Schlauch
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. jemandem viel abverlangen, großen Anforderungen aussetzen 2. bis ans Ende der Kräfte beanspruchen, strapazieren; jemandem die Kräfte rauben 3. gut auf Kosten eines anderen leben 4. eine flüssige Substanz durch einen Schlauch in ein Behältnis leiten
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 schlauchen
- schlaucht present singular third-person
- schlauchte past
- geschlaucht participle past
- haben auxiliary
- schlauchend participle present
- schlauche first-person indicative present
- schlauchst indicative present second-person
- schlauchest second-person singular subjunctive
- schlauchet plural second-person subjunctive
- schlauchten first-person indicative plural
- schlauchtest indicative preterite second-person
- schlauchtet indicative plural preterite
- schlauch imperative second-person singular
- habe geschlaucht first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben geschlaucht first-person indicative multiword-construction
- schlauche! imperative singular
- schlaucht! imperative plural
- geschlaucht haben active infinitive perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is schlauchen in German?
schlauchen appears about once in every 1 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).