Punktum
German, interjection/ˈpʊŋktʊm/
Punktum is spelled P-U-N-K-T-U-M (7 letters) and appears about once in every 13 million words in written German, the 200,239th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Punktum is a German interjection meaning “enough!, stop!” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “Ausruf, mit dem jemand verdeutlicht, über etwas vorher Erwähntes nicht weiter sprechen zu wollen”.
What does Punktum mean in English?
interjection
- 1
datedenough!, stop!
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
interjection: 1. Ausruf, mit dem jemand verdeutlicht, über etwas vorher Erwähntes nicht weiter sprechen zu wollen
The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.
Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
How do you pronounce Punktum?
- /ˈpʊŋktʊm/
- [ˈpʊŋktʊm]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is Punktum in German?
Punktum 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).