knabbern
German, verb/ˈknabɐn/
knabbern is spelled K-N-A-B-B-E-R-N (8 letters) and appears 1.4 times per million words in written German, the 30,977th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Knabbern is a German verb meaning “to nibble” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “kleine, mundgerechte Teile von einem in der Regel harten Nahrungsstück oder ähnlichen Gegenständen abbeißen…”.
What does knabbern mean in English?
verb
- 1
to nibble
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. kleine, mundgerechte Teile von einem in der Regel harten Nahrungsstück oder ähnlichen Gegenständen abbeißen, essen, daran nagen
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 knabbern
- knabbert present singular third-person
- knabberte past
- geknabbert participle past
- haben auxiliary
- knabbernd participle present
- knabbre first-person indicative present
- knabbere first-person indicative present
- knabber first-person indicative present
- knabberst indicative present second-person
- knabberest second-person singular subjunctive
- knabbrest second-person singular subjunctive
- knabberet plural second-person subjunctive
- knabbret plural second-person subjunctive
- knabberten first-person indicative plural
- knabbertest indicative preterite second-person
- knabbertet indicative plural preterite
- knuppern variant regional
- knabber! imperative singular
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce knabbern?
- /ˈknabɐn/
- [ˈknabɐn]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to knabbern
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is knabbern in German?
knabbern appears 1.4 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).