Fall
German, noun
Fall is spelled F-A-L-L (4 letters) and appears 347 times per million words in written German, the 268th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Fall is a German masculine noun meaning “fall, drop (the act of falling or an instance thereof)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). In lower case, fall is a different word: “singular imperative of fallen”. On this page, fäll is a different word: “singular imperative of fällen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “Abwärtsbewegung aufgrund der Schwerkraft; das Fallen”.
What does Fall mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinefall, drop (the act of falling or an instance thereof)
freier Fall
- 2
masculinefall, capture (the act of being seized by enemy forces)
der Fall von Konstantinopel
- 3
masculinefall; the loss of one's innocence, honour, reputation, fortune, etc.
- 4
masculinecase (actual event, situation, or fact)
Im Falle eines Falles.
- 5
masculinecase (instance or event as a topic of study)
- 6
masculinecase (piece of work subject to case handling in an authority, court, customer support etc.)
- 7
masculinecase (instance of a specific condition or set of symptoms)
- 8
masculinecase (kind of inflection of a nominal)
noun
- 1
neuterhalyard
verb
- 1
singular imperative of fallen
- 2
colloquialfirst-person singular present of fallen
verb
- 1
singular imperative of fällen
- 2
colloquialfirst-person singular present of fällen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Abwärtsbewegung aufgrund der Schwerkraft; das Fallen 2. das Eintreten eines Zustandes 3. deutsche Bezeichnung für lateinisch casus 4. die Art und Weise des Herabhängens von Stoffen oder Ähnlichem
noun: 1. ein Tau zum Hissen und Bergen eines Segels
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 Fall
- Falles genitive
- Falls genitive
- Fälle plural
- Falle dative singular
- Fällen dative definite plural
- Fallen plural
- der Fall nominative singular
- die Fälle nominative plural
- des Falls genitive singular
- des Falles genitive singular
- der Fälle genitive plural
- dem Fall dative singular
- dem Falle dative singular
- den Fällen dative plural
- den Fall accusative singular
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to Fall
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Fall in German?
Fall appears 347 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).