ballen
German, verb
ballen is spelled B-A-L-L-E-N (6 letters) and appears 1.3 times per million words in written German, the 32,479th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Ballen is a German verb meaning “to agglomerate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Ballen is a different word: “bale”. On this page, Bällen is a different word: “dative plural of Ball”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “zu einem Ball formen”.
What does ballen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to agglomerate
- 2
to bale
- 3
to clench
- 4
to gather
noun
- 1
masculinebale
- 2
masculineball, pad
noun
- 1
neutergerund of ballen
noun
- 1
masculinedative plural of Ball
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. durch Muskelmasse oder verdickte Haut abgepolsterter Bereich an der Innenseite der Gliedmaßen 2. zusammengefasste oder zusammengebundene Dinge in Form eines runden Packens (mit einem bestimmten Gewicht oder Volumen) 3. gesamtes Wurzelwerk einer Pflanze samt der umschließenden Erde
verb: 1. zu einem Ball formen 2. sich an einer Stelle häufen, sammeln 3. mit einem Ball spielen
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 ballen
- ballt present singular third-person
- ballte past
- geballt participle past
- haben auxiliary
- ballend participle present
- balle first-person indicative present
- ballst indicative present second-person
- ballest second-person singular subjunctive
- ballet plural second-person subjunctive
- ballten first-person indicative plural
- balltest indicative preterite second-person
- balltet indicative plural preterite
- ball imperative second-person singular
- habe geballt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben geballt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- Ballens genitive singular
- balle! imperative singular
- ball! imperative singular
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to ballen
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is ballen in German?
ballen appears 1.3 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).