schnapsen
German, verb
schnapsen is spelled S-C-H-N-A-P-S-E-N (9 letters) and appears about once in every 21 million words in written German, the 264,454th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Schnapsen is a German verb meaning “to play Schnapsen” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). On this page, Schnäpsen is a different word: “dative plural of Schnaps”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “Schnapsen spielen”.
What does schnapsen mean in English?
verb
- 1
Austriato play Schnapsen
noun
- 1
masculinedative plural of Schnaps
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. in Österreich und Bayern bekanntes Kartenspiel für zwei bis vier Personen
verb: 1. Schnapsen spielen
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 schnapsen
- schnapst present singular third-person
- schnapste past
- geschnapst participle past
- haben auxiliary
- schnapsend participle present
- schnapse first-person indicative present
- schnapsest second-person singular subjunctive
- schnapset plural second-person subjunctive
- schnapsten first-person indicative plural
- schnapstest indicative preterite second-person
- schnapstet indicative plural preterite
- schnaps imperative second-person singular
- habe geschnapst first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben geschnapst first-person indicative multiword-construction
- Schnapsens genitive singular
- schnaps! imperative singular
- schnapse! imperative singular
- schnapst! imperative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is schnapsen in German?
schnapsen appears about once in every 21 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).