tätscheln
German, verb
tätscheln is spelled T-Ä-T-S-C-H-E-L-N (9 letters) and appears about once in every 8 million words in written German, the 146,442nd most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Tätscheln is a German verb meaning “to pat” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Tätscheln is a different word: “gerund of tätscheln”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “als Liebkosung mit der flachen Hand mehrmals sehr leicht schlagen”.
What does tätscheln mean in English?
verb
- 1
to pat
noun
- 1
neutergerund of tätscheln
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. als Liebkosung mit der flachen Hand mehrmals sehr leicht schlagen
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 tätscheln
- tätschelt present singular third-person
- tätschelte past
- getätschelt participle past
- haben auxiliary
- tätschelnd participle present
- tätschle first-person indicative present
- tätschele first-person indicative present
- tätschel first-person indicative present
- tätschelst indicative present second-person
- tätschelest second-person singular subjunctive
- tätschlest second-person singular subjunctive
- tätschelet plural second-person subjunctive
- tätschlet plural second-person subjunctive
- tätschelten first-person indicative plural
- tätscheltest indicative preterite second-person
- tätscheltet indicative plural preterite
- tätschle! imperative singular
- tätschele! imperative singular
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to tätscheln
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is tätscheln in German?
tätscheln appears about once in every 8 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).