grollen
German, verb
grollen is spelled G-R-O-L-L-E-N (7 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written German, the 67,080th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Grollen is a German verb meaning “to grumble, to thunder” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Grollen is a different word: “gerund of grollen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “Groll hegen, jemandem gegenüber über etwas (längst Vergangenes) Zorn empfinden”.
What does grollen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to grumble, to thunder
- 2
to be angry
noun
- 1
neutergerund of grollen
noun
- 1
masculinegenitive of Groll
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Groll hegen, jemandem gegenüber über etwas (längst Vergangenes) Zorn empfinden 2. gedämpft poltern oder donnern, dröhnen
noun: 1. Geräusch, das beim Donnern oder Explosionen zu hören ist
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 grollen
- grollt present singular third-person
- grollte past
- gegrollt participle past
- haben auxiliary
- grollend participle present
- grolle first-person indicative present
- grollst indicative present second-person
- grollest second-person singular subjunctive
- grollet plural second-person subjunctive
- grollten first-person indicative plural
- grolltest indicative preterite second-person
- grolltet indicative plural preterite
- groll imperative second-person singular
- habe gegrollt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben gegrollt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- groll! imperative singular
- grolle! imperative singular
- grollt! imperative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to grollen
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is grollen in German?
grollen appears about once in every 2 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).