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knülle

German, adjective/ˈknʏlə/

knülle is spelled K-N-Ü-L-L-E (6 letters) and appears about once in every 13 million words in written German, the 202,985th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Knülle is a German adjective meaning “wasted, pissed, bombed (very drunk)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present of knüllen. The German Wiktionary defines it as “betrunken”.

What does knülle mean in English?

adjective

  1. 1

    colloquialwasted, pissed, bombed (very drunk)

  2. 2

    datedbeat, exhausted

verb

  1. 1

    first-person singular present

  2. 2

    first/third-person singular subjunctive I

  3. 3

    singular imperative

Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How German dictionaries define it

adjective: 1. betrunken 2. müde

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 knülle

  • knüller masculine nominative singular
  • am knüllsten superlative
  • knülles neuter nominative singular
  • knüllen genitive masculine singular
  • knüllem dative masculine singular
  • der knülle definite includes-article masculine
  • die knülle definite feminine includes-article
  • das knülle definite includes-article neuter
  • die knüllen definite includes-article nominative
  • des knüllen definite genitive includes-article
  • der knüllen definite feminine genitive
  • dem knüllen dative definite includes-article
  • den knüllen dative definite includes-article
  • knüll variant

Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce knülle?

  • /ˈknʏlə/
  • [ˈknʏlə]

Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

How common is knülle in German?

knülle appears about once in every 13 million words in written German.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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