tratschen
German, verb
tratschen is spelled T-R-A-T-S-C-H-E-N (9 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written German, the 88,766th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Tratschen is a German verb meaning “to gossip, to chitchat” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Tratschen is a different word: “gerund of tratschen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “über andere abfällig reden”.
What does tratschen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to gossip, to chitchat
noun
- 1
neutergerund of tratschen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. über andere abfällig reden 2. über etwas schwatzen 3. jemanden heimlich über etwas informieren 4. heftig regnen
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 tratschen
- tratscht present singular third-person
- tratschte past
- getratscht participle past
- haben auxiliary
- tratschend participle present
- tratsche first-person indicative present
- tratschst indicative present second-person
- tratschest second-person singular subjunctive
- tratschet plural second-person subjunctive
- tratschten first-person indicative plural
- tratschtest indicative preterite second-person
- tratschtet indicative plural preterite
- tratsch imperative second-person singular
- habe getratscht first-person indicative multiword-construction
- tratsche! imperative singular
- tratscht! imperative plural
- getratscht haben active infinitive perfect
- zu tratschen active extended infinitive
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to tratschen
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is tratschen in German?
tratschen appears about once in every 3 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).