schlucken
German, verb
schlucken is spelled S-C-H-L-U-C-K-E-N (9 letters) and appears 6.8 times per million words in written German, the 9,700th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Schlucken is a German verb meaning “to swallow” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). On this page, Schlücken is a different word: “dative plural of Schluck”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “durch Zusammenziehen der Muskeln im Hals und Mund in den Magen gelangen lassen”.
What does schlucken mean in English?
verb
- 1
to swallow
- 2
to gulp (swallow one's spittle out of fear etc.)
- 3
to gobble up (annex, e.g. another company)
- 4
to swallow; to accept; to put up with
- 5
to buy, to be deceived by
noun
- 1
masculinedative plural of Schluck
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. durch Zusammenziehen der Muskeln im Hals und Mund in den Magen gelangen lassen 2. etwas akzeptieren 3. etwas passt in etwas; etwas kann etwas in sich aufnehmen 4. Treibstoff/Energie verbrauchen
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 schlucken
- schluckt present singular third-person
- schluckte past
- geschluckt participle past
- haben auxiliary
- schluckend participle present
- schlucke first-person indicative present
- schluckst indicative present second-person
- schluckest second-person singular subjunctive
- schlucket plural second-person subjunctive
- schluckten first-person indicative plural
- schlucktest indicative preterite second-person
- schlucktet indicative plural preterite
- schluck imperative second-person singular
- habe geschluckt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben geschluckt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- schlucke! imperative singular
- schluck! imperative singular
- schluckt! imperative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to schlucken
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is schlucken in German?
schlucken appears 6.8 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).