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German
Etymology
Borrowed from French coucher.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkʊʃn̩/
- Hyphenation: ku‧schen
Verb
kuschen (weak, third-person singular present kuscht, past tense kuschte, past participle gekuscht, auxiliary haben)
- (of a dog) to lie down
- (figurative) to knuckle under, to kowtow (to act submissively)
1911, Lily Braun, Memoiren einer Sozialistin [Memoirs of a Woman Socialist], Kampfjahre, München: Albert Langen:»Bei denen heißt's noch immer, wenn unsereins den Mund auftut: Kusch dich! zu Hause — wie in der Bewegung,« sagte eine andere langjährige Parteigenossin.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
2023 April 28, Ansgar Siemens, Serafin Reiber, Florian Bayer, “Eine Regierung am seidenen Faden”, in Der Spiegel, →ISSN:Kuschen die Grünen vor der SPD, nur um den Koalitionsfrieden zu erhalten? Der Streit über die Abweichlerin Miriam Block in der Hamburger Bürgerschaft zeigt, welchen Preis sie dafür zahlen müssen.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Conjugation
Conjugation of
kuschen (
weak, auxiliary
haben)
1Permitted officially in Austria; used colloquially throughout the German-speaking area.
2Rare except in very formal contexts; alternative in würde normally preferred.
Composed forms of
kuschen (
weak, auxiliary
haben)
Further reading
- “kuschen” in Duden online
- “kuschen” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache