schocken
German, verb
schocken is spelled S-C-H-O-C-K-E-N (8 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written German, the 45,196th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Schocken is a German verb meaning “to shock” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Schocken is a different word: “dative plural of Schock”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “jemanden erschrecken”.
What does schocken mean in English?
verb
- 1
colloquialto shock
- 2
to shock, to give an electric shock
- 3
datedslangto rock (to thrill, to be very favorable)
noun
- 1
masculinedative plural of Schock
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. jemanden erschrecken
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 schocken
- schockt present singular third-person
- schockte past
- geschockt participle past
- haben auxiliary
- schockend participle present
- schocke first-person indicative present
- schockst indicative present second-person
- schockest second-person singular subjunctive
- schocket plural second-person subjunctive
- schockten first-person indicative plural
- schocktest indicative preterite second-person
- schocktet indicative plural preterite
- schock imperative second-person singular
- habe geschockt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben geschockt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- schocke! imperative singular
- schockt! imperative plural
- geschockt haben active infinitive perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is schocken in German?
schocken 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).