schluchzen
German, verb
schluchzen is spelled S-C-H-L-U-C-H-Z-E-N (10 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written German, the 41,722nd most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Schluchzen is a German verb meaning “to sob” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Schluchzen is a different word: “gerund of schluchzen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “heftig, krampfartig, stoßweise und mit kurzen, (schnell) aufeinanderfolgenden Lauten weinen”.
What does schluchzen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to sob
noun
- 1
neutergerund of schluchzen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. heftig, krampfartig, stoßweise und mit kurzen, (schnell) aufeinanderfolgenden Lauten weinen
noun: 1. schluchzendes Geräusch
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 schluchzen
- schluchzt present singular third-person
- schluchzte past
- geschluchzt participle past
- haben auxiliary
- schluchzend participle present
- schluchze first-person indicative present
- schluchzest second-person singular subjunctive
- schluchzet plural second-person subjunctive
- schluchzten first-person indicative plural
- schluchztest indicative preterite second-person
- schluchztet indicative plural preterite
- schluchz imperative second-person singular
- habe geschluchzt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben geschluchzt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- schluchz! imperative singular
- schluchzt! imperative plural
- geschluchzt haben active infinitive perfect
- zu schluchzen active extended infinitive
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to schluchzen
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is schluchzen in German?
schluchzen 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).