kalauern
German, verb
kalauern is a German verb meaning “to joke; to pun” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Kalauern is a different word: “dative plural of Kalauer”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “(schlechte) Witze machen”.
What does kalauern mean in English?
verb
- 1
to joke; to pun
noun
- 1
masculinedative plural of Kalauer
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. (schlechte) Witze machen
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 kalauern
- kalauert present singular third-person
- kalauerte past
- gekalauert participle past
- haben auxiliary
- kalauernd participle present
- kalaure first-person indicative present
- kalauere first-person indicative present
- kalauer first-person indicative present
- kalauerst indicative present second-person
- kalauerest second-person singular subjunctive
- kalaurest second-person singular subjunctive
- kalaueret plural second-person subjunctive
- kalauret plural second-person subjunctive
- kalauerten first-person indicative plural
- kalauertest indicative preterite second-person
- kalauertet indicative plural preterite
- kalauere! imperative singular
- kalauert! imperative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to kalauern
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is kalauern in German?
kalauern appears about once in every 29 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).