schütteln
German, verb
schütteln is spelled S-C-H-Ü-T-T-E-L-N (9 letters) and appears 6.5 times per million words in written German, the 10,058th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Schütteln is a German verb meaning “to shake” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Schütteln is a different word: “gerund of schütteln”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “einen Gegenstand oder eine Person schnell hin- und herbewegen”.
What does schütteln mean in English?
verb
- 1
to shake
noun
- 1
neutergerund of schütteln
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. einen Gegenstand oder eine Person schnell hin- und herbewegen
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 schütteln
- schüttelt present singular third-person
- schüttelte past
- geschüttelt participle past
- haben auxiliary
- schüttelnd participle present
- schüttle first-person indicative present
- schüttele first-person indicative present
- schüttel first-person indicative present
- schüttelst indicative present second-person
- schüttelest second-person singular subjunctive
- schüttlest second-person singular subjunctive
- schüttelet plural second-person subjunctive
- schüttlet plural second-person subjunctive
- schüttelten first-person indicative plural
- schütteltest indicative preterite second-person
- schütteltet indicative plural preterite
- schüttle! imperative singular
- schüttele! imperative singular
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to schütteln
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is schütteln in German?
schütteln appears 6.5 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).