klirren
German, verb
klirren is spelled K-L-I-R-R-E-N (7 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written German, the 58,632nd most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Klirren is a German verb meaning “to clink, to clank, to clash, to jingle, to clatter” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Klirren is a different word: “gerund of klirren, clang, clank, clink”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “ein helles, vibrierendes Geräusch von sich geben”.
What does klirren mean in English?
verb
- 1
to clink, to clank, to clash, to jingle, to clatter.
noun
- 1
neutergerund of klirren, clang, clank, clink
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. ein helles, vibrierendes Geräusch von sich geben
noun: 1. klirrendes Geräusch
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 klirren
- klirrt present singular third-person
- klirrte past
- geklirrt participle past
- haben auxiliary
- klirrend participle present
- klirre first-person indicative present
- klirrst indicative present second-person
- klirrest second-person singular subjunctive
- klirret plural second-person subjunctive
- klirrten first-person indicative plural
- klirrtest indicative preterite second-person
- klirrtet indicative plural preterite
- klirr imperative second-person singular
- habe geklirrt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben geklirrt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- klirre! imperative singular
- klirrt! imperative plural
- geklirrt haben active infinitive perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to klirren
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is klirren in German?
klirren 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).