schlürfen
German, verb
schlürfen is spelled S-C-H-L-Ü-R-F-E-N (9 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written German, the 44,523rd most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Schlürfen is a German verb meaning “to slurp; to sip loudly” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). Without its umlaut, schlurfen is a different word: “to shuffle (walk without picking up one’s feet)”. On this page, Schlurfen is a different word: “shuffle”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “etwas Flüssiges in kleinen Mengen geräuschvoll einsaugen, trinken”.
What does schlürfen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to slurp; to sip loudly
Er schlürfte an seinem Tee.
verb
- 1
to shuffle (walk without picking up one’s feet)
noun
- 1
neutergerund of schlurfen
- 2
neutershuffle
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. etwas Flüssiges in kleinen Mengen geräuschvoll einsaugen, trinken 2. die Füße beim Laufen nicht richtig heben
verb: 1. beim Laufen die Füße nicht heben; schleppend gehen 2. Nebenform zu schlürfen
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 schlürfen
- schlürft present singular third-person
- schlürfte past
- geschlürft participle past
- haben auxiliary
- schlürfend participle present
- schlürfe first-person indicative present
- schlürfst indicative present second-person
- schlürfest second-person singular subjunctive
- schlürfet plural second-person subjunctive
- schlürften first-person indicative plural
- schlürftest indicative preterite second-person
- schlürftet indicative plural preterite
- schlürf imperative second-person singular
- habe geschlürft first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben geschlürft first-person indicative multiword-construction
- schlurfen variant
- schlürfe! imperative singular
- schlürf! imperative singular
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to schlürfen
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is schlürfen in German?
schlürfen 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).