hüpfen
German, verb
hüpfen is spelled H-Ü-P-F-E-N (6 letters) and appears 2.5 times per million words in written German, the 20,546th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Hüpfen is a German verb meaning “to hop, to skip, to bounce (of a ball)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). Without its umlaut, hupfen is a different word: “alternative form of hüpfen”. With a capital, Hüpfen is a different word: “gerund of hüpfen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “kleine Sprünge machen, mit kleinen Sprüngen laufen”.
What does hüpfen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to hop, to skip, to bounce (of a ball)
- 2
to jump (for joy), to bob (on the water), etc.
verb
- 1
Austriacolloquialalternative form of hüpfen
noun
- 1
neutergerund of hüpfen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. kleine Sprünge machen, mit kleinen Sprüngen laufen
verb: 1. hüpfen
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 hüpfen
- hüpft present singular third-person
- hüpfte past
- gehüpft participle past
- sein auxiliary
- hüpfend participle present
- hüpfe first-person indicative present
- hüpfst indicative present second-person
- hüpfest second-person singular subjunctive
- hüpfet plural second-person subjunctive
- hüpften first-person indicative plural
- hüpftest indicative preterite second-person
- hüpftet indicative plural preterite
- hüpf imperative second-person singular
- bin gehüpft first-person indicative multiword-construction
- sind gehüpft first-person indicative multiword-construction
- hupfen variant
- hüpfe! imperative singular
- hüpft! imperative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to hüpfen
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is hüpfen in German?
hüpfen appears 2.5 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).