klaffen
German, verb
klaffen is spelled K-L-A-F-F-E-N (7 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written German, the 61,377th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Klaffen is a German verb meaning “to gape” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an umlaut, kläffen is a different word: “to yap”. On this page, Kläffen is a different word: “gerund of kläffen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “tiefe Einschnitte bilden, sich weit öffnen”.
What does klaffen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to gape
- 2
to yawn
verb
- 1
to yap
noun
- 1
neutergerund of kläffen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. tiefe Einschnitte bilden, sich weit öffnen 2. weit auseinander liegen
verb: 1. unangenehm laut und schrill bellen 2. aufgeregt, schrill schimpfen 3. etwas einen Spalt öffnen, z.B. eine Tür, einen Rollladen
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 klaffen
- kläfft present singular third-person
- kläffte past
- gekläfft participle past
- haben auxiliary
- kläffend participle present
- kläffe first-person indicative present
- kläffst indicative present second-person
- kläffest second-person singular subjunctive
- kläffet plural second-person subjunctive
- kläfften first-person indicative plural
- kläfftest indicative preterite second-person
- kläfftet indicative plural preterite
- kläff imperative second-person singular
- habe gekläfft first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben gekläfft first-person indicative multiword-construction
- klaffe present
- klaffst present
- klafft present
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to klaffen
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is klaffen in German?
klaffen 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).