totlachen
German, verb
totlachen is spelled T-O-T-L-A-C-H-E-N (9 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written German, the 54,418th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Totlachen is a German verb meaning “to crack up, to laugh one's head off” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Totlachen is a different word: “gerund of totlachen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “heftig, kräftig Freude zeigen (lachen)”.
What does totlachen mean in English?
verb
- 1
colloquialto crack up, to laugh one's head off
noun
- 1
neutergerund of totlachen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. heftig, kräftig Freude zeigen (lachen)
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 totlachen
- lacht tot present singular third-person
- lachte tot past
- totgelacht participle past
- haben auxiliary
- totlachend participle present
- totzulachen infinitive infinitive-zu
- lache tot first-person indicative present
- lachen tot first-person indicative plural
- lachst tot indicative present second-person
- lachest tot second-person singular subjunctive
- lachet tot plural second-person subjunctive
- lachten tot first-person indicative plural
- lachtest tot indicative preterite second-person
- lachtet tot indicative plural preterite
- lach tot! imperative singular
- lache tot! imperative singular
- lacht tot! imperative plural
- sich totlachen infinitive present not-extended
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is totlachen in German?
totlachen appears about once in every 2 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).