abknabbern
German, verb
abknabbern is spelled A-B-K-N-A-B-B-E-R-N (10 letters) and appears about once in every 69 million words in written German, the 515,032nd most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Abknabbern is a German verb meaning “to nibble off” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
What does abknabbern mean in English?
verb
- 1
to nibble off
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Forms of abknabbern
- knabbert ab present singular third-person
- knabberte ab past
- abgeknabbert participle past
- haben auxiliary
- abknabbernd participle present
- abzuknabbern infinitive infinitive-zu
- knabbre ab first-person indicative present
- knabbere ab first-person indicative present
- knabber ab first-person indicative present
- knabbern ab first-person indicative plural
- knabberst ab indicative present second-person
- knabberest ab second-person singular subjunctive
- knabbrest ab second-person singular subjunctive
- knabberet ab plural second-person subjunctive
- knabbret ab plural second-person subjunctive
- knabberten ab first-person indicative plural
- knabbertest ab indicative preterite second-person
- knabbertet ab indicative plural preterite
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is abknabbern in German?
abknabbern appears about once in every 69 million words in written German.
abknabbern0.0010.010.11101001,00010,000
rarerper million words of written Germanmore common
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).