Kniffen
German, noun
Kniffen is spelled K-N-I-F-F-E-N (7 letters) and appears about once in every 7 million words in written German, the 132,783rd most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Kniffen is a German masculine noun meaning “dative plural of Kniff” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). In lower case, kniffen is a different word: “first/third-person plural preterite”.
What does Kniffen mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinedative plural of Kniff
verb
- 1
first/third-person plural preterite
- 2
first/third-person plural subjunctive II
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. scharf umbiegen und plattdrücken
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 Kniffen
- kniffe present
- kniffst present
- knifft present
- kniffte past
- kniff! imperative singular
- kniffe! imperative singular
- knifft! imperative plural
- geknifft participle-2 perfect
- haben auxiliary perfect
- geknifft haben active infinitive perfect
- geknifft werden processual-passive infinitive present
- geknifft worden sein processual-passive infinitive perfect
- geknifft sein statal-passive infinitive present
- geknifft gewesen sein statal-passive infinitive perfect
- zu kniffen active extended infinitive
- geknifft zu haben active extended infinitive
- geknifft zu werden processual-passive extended infinitive
- geknifft worden zu sein processual-passive extended infinitive
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is Kniffen in German?
Kniffen appears about once in every 7 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).