abklopfen
German, verb/ˈapˌklɔp͡fn̩/
abklopfen is spelled A-B-K-L-O-P-F-E-N (9 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written German, the 101,039th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Abklopfen is a German verb meaning “to tap, pat or knock something off of something (e.g., dust from a piece of garment, or plaster off a wall)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
What does abklopfen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to tap, pat or knock something off of something (e.g., dust from a piece of garment, or plaster off a wall)
- 2
to sound out, to investigate, to scrutinize
- 3
to percuss
- 4
to tap out
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Forms of abklopfen
- klopft ab present singular third-person
- klopfte ab past
- abgeklopft participle past
- haben auxiliary
- abklopfend participle present
- abzuklopfen infinitive infinitive-zu
- klopfe ab first-person indicative present
- klopfen ab first-person indicative plural
- klopfst ab indicative present second-person
- klopfest ab second-person singular subjunctive
- klopfet ab plural second-person subjunctive
- klopften ab first-person indicative plural
- klopftest ab indicative preterite second-person
- klopftet ab indicative plural preterite
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce abklopfen?
- /ˈapˌklɔp͡fn̩/
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is abklopfen in German?
abklopfen appears about once in every 4 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).