zechen
German, verb
zechen is spelled Z-E-C-H-E-N (6 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written German, the 48,028th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Zechen is a German verb meaning “to drink alcohol to excess; to booze” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Zechen is a different word: “plural of Zeche”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “(meist in der Gruppe) übermäßig viel Alkohol trinken”.
What does zechen mean in English?
verb
- 1
datedslangto drink alcohol to excess; to booze
noun
- 1
feminineplural of Zeche
noun
- 1
neutergerund of zechen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. (meist in der Gruppe) übermäßig viel Alkohol trinken
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 zechen
- zecht present singular third-person
- zechte past
- gezecht participle past
- haben auxiliary
- zechend participle present
- zeche first-person indicative present
- zechst indicative present second-person
- zechest second-person singular subjunctive
- zechet plural second-person subjunctive
- zechten first-person indicative plural
- zechtest indicative preterite second-person
- zechtet indicative plural preterite
- zech imperative second-person singular
- habe gezecht first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben gezecht first-person indicative multiword-construction
- zeche! imperative singular
- zecht! imperative plural
- gezecht haben active infinitive perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to zechen
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is zechen in German?
zechen appears about once in every 1 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).