grölen
German, verb
grölen is spelled G-R-Ö-L-E-N (6 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written German, the 72,255th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Grölen is a German verb meaning “to bawl; to bellow; to chant” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Grölen is a different word: “gerund of grölen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “laut und unschön singen oder schreien”.
What does grölen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to bawl; to bellow; to chant
Die Fußballfans grölten ihre Lieder.
noun
- 1
neutergerund of grölen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. laut und unschön singen oder schreien
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 grölen
- grölt present singular third-person
- grölte past
- gegrölt participle past
- haben auxiliary
- grölend participle present
- gröle first-person indicative present
- grölst indicative present second-person
- grölest second-person singular subjunctive
- grölet plural second-person subjunctive
- grölten first-person indicative plural
- gröltest indicative preterite second-person
- gröltet indicative plural preterite
- gröl imperative second-person singular
- habe gegrölt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben gegrölt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- gröle! imperative singular
- grölt! imperative plural
- gegrölt haben active infinitive perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to grölen
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is grölen in German?
grölen appears about once in every 3 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).