schuften
German, verb
schuften is spelled S-C-H-U-F-T-E-N (8 letters) and appears 1.3 times per million words in written German, the 31,999th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Schuften is a German verb meaning “to drudge, toil” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Schuften is a different word: “gerund of schuften”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “hart/schwer arbeiten”.
What does schuften mean in English?
verb
- 1
colloquialto drudge, toil
noun
- 1
neutergerund of schuften
noun
- 1
masculinedative plural of Schuft
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. hart/schwer arbeiten
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 schuften
- schuftet present singular third-person
- schuftete past
- geschuftet participle past
- haben auxiliary
- schuftend participle present
- schufte first-person indicative present
- schuftest indicative present second-person
- schufteten first-person indicative plural
- schuftetest indicative preterite second-person
- schuftetet indicative plural preterite
- schuft imperative second-person singular
- habe geschuftet first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben geschuftet first-person indicative multiword-construction
- schufte! imperative singular
- schuft! imperative singular
- schuftet! imperative plural
- geschuftet haben active infinitive perfect
- zu schuften active extended infinitive
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to schuften
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is schuften in German?
schuften appears 1.3 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).