zucken
German, verb
zucken is spelled Z-U-C-K-E-N (6 letters) and appears 2.7 times per million words in written German, the 19,537th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Zucken is a German verb meaning “to jerk, twitch” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an umlaut, zücken is a different word: “to pull something out and ready it for use, to draw (a weapon)”. On this page, Zücken is a different word: “gerund of zücken”. With a capital, Zucken is a different word: “gerund of zucken”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “eine kurze, schnelle, meist unwillkürliche Bewegung ausführen”.
What does zucken mean in English?
verb
- 1
to jerk, twitch
- 2
to shrug (the shoulders)
- 3
to flicker, flash; to flutter
- 4
to wiggle (e.g. the eyebrows)
verb
- 1
to pull something out and ready it for use, to draw (a weapon)
noun
- 1
neutergerund of zücken
noun
- 1
neutergerund of zucken
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. eine kurze, schnelle, meist unwillkürliche Bewegung ausführen
noun: 1. unwillkürliche Bewegung des Körpers
verb: 1. eine Waffe schnell aus der Tasche, dem Holster oder zum Beispiel auch der Scheide hervorziehen 2. etwas aus der Tasche hervorholen
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 zucken
- zuckt present singular third-person
- zuckte past
- gezuckt participle past
- haben auxiliary
- zuckend participle present
- zucke first-person indicative present
- zuckst indicative present second-person
- zuckest second-person singular subjunctive
- zucket plural second-person subjunctive
- zuckten first-person indicative plural
- zucktest indicative preterite second-person
- zucktet indicative plural preterite
- zuck imperative second-person singular
- habe gezuckt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben gezuckt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- zucke! imperative singular
- zuckt! imperative plural
- zucket! imperative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to zucken
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is zucken in German?
zucken appears 2.7 times per million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).