schnauzen
German, verb
schnauzen is spelled S-C-H-N-A-U-Z-E-N (9 letters) and appears about once in every 7 million words in written German, the 134,701st most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Schnauzen is a German verb meaning “to bark (speak aggressively)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an umlaut, schnäuzen is a different word: “to blow one's nose (to expel mucus from nose)”. With a capital, Schnauzen is a different word: “plural of Schnauze”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “etwas eher kurz angebunden und grob, barsch von sich geben”.
What does schnauzen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to bark (speak aggressively)
verb
- 1
to blow one's nose (to expel mucus from nose)
noun
- 1
feminineplural of Schnauze
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. sich die Nase putzen; Nasensekret aus der Nase blasen
verb: 1. etwas eher kurz angebunden und grob, barsch von sich geben
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 schnauzen
- schnäuzt present singular third-person
- schnäuzte past
- geschnäuzt participle past
- haben auxiliary
- schnäuzend participle present
- schnäuze first-person indicative present
- schnäuzest second-person singular subjunctive
- schnäuzet plural second-person subjunctive
- schnäuzten first-person indicative plural
- schnäuztest indicative preterite second-person
- schnäuztet indicative plural preterite
- schnäuz imperative second-person singular
- habe geschnäuzt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben geschnäuzt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- schneuzen obsolete
- schnäuze! imperative singular
- schnäuzt! imperative plural
- geschnäuzt haben active infinitive perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is schnauzen in German?
schnauzen appears about once in every 7 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).