twerken
German, verb/tvɛʁkn̩/
twerken is spelled T-W-E-R-K-E-N (7 letters) and appears about once in every 44 million words in written German, the 396,524th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Twerken is a German verb meaning “to twerk (to dance in a sexually-provocative way using hip thrusts in a low squatting stance while shaking the buttocks; to take part in…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “den Twerk tanzen”.
What does twerken mean in English?
verb
- 1
to twerk (to dance in a sexually-provocative way using hip thrusts in a low squatting stance while shaking the buttocks; to take part in twerking)
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. den Twerk tanzen
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 twerken
- twerkt present singular third-person
- twerkte past
- getwerkt participle past
- haben auxiliary
- twerkend participle present
- twerke first-person indicative present
- twerkst indicative present second-person
- twerkest second-person singular subjunctive
- twerket plural second-person subjunctive
- twerkten first-person indicative plural
- twerktest indicative preterite second-person
- twerktet indicative plural preterite
- twerk imperative second-person singular
- habe getwerkt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben getwerkt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- twerk! imperative singular
- twerke! imperative singular
- twerkt! imperative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce twerken?
- /tvɛʁkn̩/
- [ˈtʋɛʁkn̩]
- [ˈtʋɛʁkŋ̩]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to twerken
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is twerken in German?
twerken appears about once in every 44 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).