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tuschen

German, verb

tuschen is spelled T-U-S-C-H-E-N (7 letters) and appears about once in every 7 million words in written German, the 132,783rd most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Tuschen is a German verb meaning “to paint with watercolours” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Tuschen is a different word: “nominative plural of Tusche”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “mit einer bestimmten Farbe (Wasserfarbe, Tusche) malen”.

What does tuschen mean in English?

verb

  1. 1

    to paint with watercolours

  2. 2

    to use mascara

noun

as Tuschen
  1. 1

    femininenominative plural of Tusche

  2. 2

    femininegenitive plural of Tusche

  3. 3

    femininedative plural of Tusche

  4. 4

    feminineaccusative plural of Tusche

noun

as Tuschen
  1. 1

    masculinedative plural of Tusch (“flourish”)

noun

as Tuschen
  1. 1

    masculinedative plural of Tusch (“tusche”)

Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How German dictionaries define it

verb: 1. mit einer bestimmten Farbe (Wasserfarbe, Tusche) malen 2. die Wimpern oder Augenbrauen mit Wimperntusche färben

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 tuschen

  • tuscht present singular third-person
  • tuschte past
  • getuscht participle past
  • haben auxiliary
  • tuschend participle present
  • tusche first-person indicative present
  • tuschst indicative present second-person
  • tuschest second-person singular subjunctive
  • tuschet plural second-person subjunctive
  • tuschten first-person indicative plural
  • tuschtest indicative preterite second-person
  • tuschtet indicative plural preterite
  • tusch imperative second-person singular
  • habe getuscht first-person indicative multiword-construction
  • tusch! imperative singular
  • tusche! imperative singular
  • tuscht! imperative plural
  • getuscht haben active infinitive perfect

Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How common is tuschen in German?

tuschen appears about once in every 7 million words in written German.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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