nachhallen
German, verb
nachhallen is spelled N-A-C-H-H-A-L-L-E-N (10 letters) and appears about once in every 20 million words in written German, the 257,657th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Nachhallen is a German verb meaning “to reverberate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Nachhallen is a different word: “dative plural of Nachhall”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “weiter hörbar sein, aber dann allmählich ausklingen (ein Geräusch, ein Ton)”.
What does nachhallen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to reverberate
noun
- 1
masculinedative plural of Nachhall
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. weiter hörbar sein, aber dann allmählich ausklingen (ein Geräusch, ein Ton) 2. im Nachhinein noch eine Bedeutung, eine Wirkung haben (ein Ereignis, ein Kunstwerk)
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 nachhallen
- hallt nach present singular third-person
- hallte nach past
- nachgehallt participle past
- haben auxiliary
- nachhallend participle present
- nachzuhallen infinitive infinitive-zu
- hallen nach indicative plural present
- halle nach singular subjunctive subjunctive-i
- hallten nach indicative plural preterite
- nachhallt indicative present singular
- nachhalle singular subjunctive subjunctive-i
- nachhallte indicative preterite singular
- nachhallten indicative plural preterite
- hat nachgehallt indicative multiword-construction perfect
- haben nachgehallt indicative multiword-construction perfect
- habe nachgehallt multiword-construction perfect singular
- hatte nachgehallt indicative multiword-construction pluperfect
- sein auxiliary perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to nachhallen
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is nachhallen in German?
nachhallen appears about once in every 20 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).