knüllen
German, verb[ˈknʏlən]
knüllen is spelled K-N-Ü-L-L-E-N (7 letters) and appears about once in every 60 million words in written German, the 476,489th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Knüllen is a German verb meaning “to crumple” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “etwas zusammendrücken, zusammenknautschen (meist für Papier, Stoff oder Ähnliches)”.
What does knüllen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to crumple
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. etwas zusammendrücken, zusammenknautschen (meist für Papier, Stoff oder Ähnliches) 2. sich knautschen, sich knittern
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 knüllen
- knüllt present singular third-person
- knüllte past
- geknüllt participle past
- haben auxiliary
- knüllend participle present
- knülle first-person indicative present
- knüllst indicative present second-person
- knüllest second-person singular subjunctive
- knüllet plural second-person subjunctive
- knüllten first-person indicative plural
- knülltest indicative preterite second-person
- knülltet indicative plural preterite
- knüll imperative second-person singular
- habe geknüllt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben geknüllt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- knüll! imperative singular
- knülle! imperative singular
- knüllt! imperative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce knüllen?
- [ˈknʏlən]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to knüllen
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is knüllen in German?
knüllen appears about once in every 60 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).