knallen
German, verb
knallen is spelled K-N-A-L-L-E-N (7 letters) and appears 2.9 times per million words in written German, the 18,511th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Knallen is a German verb meaning “to bang, to pop (to produce a loud, sharp, percussive sound)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Knallen is a different word: “dative plural of Knall”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “einen Knall von sich geben”.
What does knallen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to bang, to pop (to produce a loud, sharp, percussive sound)
- 2
colloquialto shoot
- 3
colloquialto crash into/onto something with force, to collide with something
- 4
colloquialto slam, bang, throw something against something with force
- 5
vulgarto fuck
noun
- 1
masculinedative plural of Knall
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. einen Knall von sich geben 2. verrückt sein, einen Knall haben 3. Ärger geben 4. mit einer Feuerwaffe schießen
noun: 1. knallendes 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 knallen
- knallt present singular third-person
- knallte past
- geknallt participle past
- haben auxiliary
- knallend participle present
- knalle first-person indicative present
- knallst indicative present second-person
- knallest second-person singular subjunctive
- knallet plural second-person subjunctive
- knallten first-person indicative plural
- knalltest indicative preterite second-person
- knalltet indicative plural preterite
- knall imperative second-person singular
- habe geknallt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben geknallt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- knall! imperative singular
- knallt! imperative plural
- geknallt haben active infinitive perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to knallen
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is knallen in German?
knallen appears 2.9 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).