Knie
German, noun
Knie is spelled K-N-I-E (4 letters) and appears 22 times per million words in written German, the 3,577th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Knie is a German neuter noun meaning “knee” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). In lower case, knie is a different word: “first-person singular present”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “vorderer Teil des Kniegelenks beim Menschen und anderen Säugetieren”.
What does Knie mean in English?
noun
- 1
neuterknee
verb
- 1
first-person singular present
- 2
singular imperative
- 3
first/third-person singular subjunctive I
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. vorderer Teil des Kniegelenks beim Menschen und anderen Säugetieren 2. an einem Hosenbein oder Strumpf, die Stelle, an der sich das Knie^([1]) befindet 3. ein Stück, das (im rechten Winkel) gebogen ist 4. Biegung eines Flusses
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 Knie
- Knies genitive
- Kniee plural
- Knien dative definite plural
- Knieen dative definite plural
- Knye alternative obsolete
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to Knie
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Knie in German?
Knie appears 22 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).