antippen
German, verb
antippen is a German verb meaning “to tap” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Antippen is a different word: “gerund of antippen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “vorsichtig mit einem Finger kurz berühren”.
What does antippen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to tap
- 2
to touch lightly
noun
- 1
neutergerund of antippen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. vorsichtig mit einem Finger kurz berühren 2. kurz und oberflächlich auf etwas eingehen 3. kurz zu einem Thema oder einer Fragestellung um Stellungnahme bitten
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 antippen
- tippt an present singular third-person
- tippte an past
- angetippt participle past
- haben auxiliary
- antippend participle present
- anzutippen infinitive infinitive-zu
- tippe an first-person indicative present
- tippen an first-person indicative plural
- tippst an indicative present second-person
- tippest an second-person singular subjunctive
- tippet an plural second-person subjunctive
- tippten an first-person indicative plural
- tipptest an indicative preterite second-person
- tipptet an indicative plural preterite
- tipp an! imperative singular
- tippe an! imperative singular
- tippt an! imperative plural
- angetippt haben active infinitive perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is antippen in German?
antippen appears about once in every 6 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).