Unfall
German, noun/ˈʊnˌfal/
Unfall is a German masculine noun meaning “accident” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “Vorfall, bei dem Sachen, Menschen oder Tiere physisch/körperlich zu Schaden kommen”.
What does Unfall mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineaccident
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Vorfall, bei dem Sachen, Menschen oder Tiere physisch/körperlich zu Schaden kommen
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 Unfall
- Unfalles genitive
- Unfalls genitive
- Unfälle plural
- Unfalle dative singular
- Unfällen dative definite plural
- Unf. abbreviation
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce Unfall?
- /ˈʊnˌfal/
- [ˈʊnfal]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to Unfall
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Unfall in German?
Unfall appears 50 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).