plappern
German, verb
plappern is spelled P-L-A-P-P-E-R-N (8 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written German, the 64,132nd most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Plappern is a German verb meaning “to babble” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Plappern is a different word: “gerund of plappern”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “aus der Freude am Reden ohne besonderen inhaltlichen Tiefgang fröhlich vor sich hin erzählen”.
What does plappern mean in English?
verb
- 1
to babble
noun
- 1
neutergerund of plappern
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. aus der Freude am Reden ohne besonderen inhaltlichen Tiefgang fröhlich vor sich hin erzählen 2. Falsches, Nutzloses oder Schädliches von sich geben
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 plappern
- plappert present singular third-person
- plapperte past
- geplappert participle past
- haben auxiliary
- plappernd participle present
- plappre first-person indicative present
- plappere first-person indicative present
- plapper first-person indicative present
- plapperst indicative present second-person
- plapperest second-person singular subjunctive
- plapprest second-person singular subjunctive
- plapperet plural second-person subjunctive
- plappret plural second-person subjunctive
- plapperten first-person indicative plural
- plappertest indicative preterite second-person
- plappertet indicative plural preterite
- plapper! imperative singular
- plappere! imperative singular
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to plappern
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is plappern in German?
plappern appears about once in every 2 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).