anknabbern
German, verb/anˈknabɐn/
anknabbern is spelled A-N-K-N-A-B-B-E-R-N (10 letters) and appears about once in every 9 million words in written German, the 163,492nd most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Anknabbern is a German verb meaning “to gnaw away at something” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “an etwas herumnagen, kleine Teile von etwas abbeißen”.
What does anknabbern mean in English?
verb
- 1
to gnaw away at something
- 2
to nibble
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. an etwas herumnagen, kleine Teile von etwas abbeißen 2. eine neue Packung mit Lebensmitteln öffnen und anfangen, davon zu essen; vom einem noch kompletten Lebensmittel (Kuchen, Brot oder Ähnliches) als Erster ein Stückchen essen
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 anknabbern
- knabbert an present singular third-person
- knabberte an past
- angeknabbert participle past
- haben auxiliary
- anknabbernd participle present
- anzuknabbern infinitive infinitive-zu
- knabbre an first-person indicative present
- knabbere an first-person indicative present
- knabber an first-person indicative present
- knabbern an first-person indicative plural
- knabberst an indicative present second-person
- knabberest an second-person singular subjunctive
- knabbrest an second-person singular subjunctive
- knabberet an plural second-person subjunctive
- knabbret an plural second-person subjunctive
- knabberten an first-person indicative plural
- knabbertest an indicative preterite second-person
- knabbertet an indicative plural preterite
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce anknabbern?
- /anˈknabɐn/
- [ˈanˌknabɐn]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is anknabbern in German?
anknabbern appears about once in every 9 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).