German

Alternative forms

• kucken (reflecting the common pronunciation, but less frequent in writing)

Verb

gucken ‎(third-person singular simple present guckt, past tense guckte, past participle geguckt, auxiliary haben)

1. (regional) to look, to direct one's gaze at something
2. (regional) to watch, to direct one's gaze at something for some time
3. (regional) to look, to have a certain facial expression

   Warum guckst du so traurig?‎

   Why are you looking so sad?

Usage notes

• Gucken, along with its spelling variant kucken, is the common word for "to look" in northern and central Germany. Southern German and Austrian varieties use schauen. Gucken is not normally used in formal language where it is replaced with respective synonyms.

Conjugation

Synonyms

• schauen, sehen, hinsehen
• betrachten, ansehen
• aussehen

Derived terms