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Wall

German, noun

Wall is a German masculine noun meaning “rampart, parapet, earthwork” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). In lower case, wall is a different word: “singular imperative of wallen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “künstliche Erhöhung (Erdaufschichtung, Mauern) als Wehranlage, Befestigung einer Stadt oder zum Schutz vor…”.

What does Wall mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculinerampart, parapet, earthwork

  2. 2

    masculinelevee, embankment

  3. 3

    masculineridge

verb

as wall
  1. 1

    singular imperative of wallen

  2. 2

    colloquialfirst-person singular present of wallen

Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How German dictionaries define it

noun: 1. künstliche Erhöhung (Erdaufschichtung, Mauern) als Wehranlage, Befestigung einer Stadt oder zum Schutz vor Wasser 2. etwas, das wie ein Wall oder eine Mauer angelegt ist oder einen schützend umgibt

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 Wall

  • Walles genitive
  • Walls genitive
  • Wälle plural
  • Walle dative singular
  • Wällen dative definite plural

Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

English words that translate to Wall

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is Wall in German?

Wall appears 13 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).