donnern
German, verb
donnern is spelled D-O-N-N-E-R-N (7 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written German, the 43,091st most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Donnern is a German verb meaning “to thunder” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Donnern is a different word: “thunder, rumbling”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “als Folge eines Blitzes ein lautes Geräusch verursachen”.
What does donnern mean in English?
verb
- 1
to thunder
verb
- 1
to drum, to beat a drum
noun
- 1
neutergerund of donnern
- 2
neuterthunder, rumbling
noun
- 1
dative plural of Donner
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. als Folge eines Blitzes ein lautes Geräusch verursachen 2. laut (und kritisch) reden 3. laut und tösend (schnell) fahren 4. (etwas) laut und mit Wucht schlagen
noun: 1. donnerndes Geräusch
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 donnern
- Donnerns genitive
- donnert present singular third-person
- donnerte past
- gedonnert participle past
- haben auxiliary
- donnernd participle present
- donnre first-person indicative present
- donnere first-person indicative present
- donner first-person indicative present
- donnerst indicative present second-person
- donnerest second-person singular subjunctive
- donnrest second-person singular subjunctive
- donneret plural second-person subjunctive
- donnret plural second-person subjunctive
- donnerten first-person indicative plural
- donnertest indicative preterite second-person
- donnertet indicative plural preterite
- donnere! imperative singular
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to donnern
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is donnern in German?
donnern appears about once in every 1 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).