tollen
German, verb
tollen is spelled T-O-L-L-E-N (6 letters) and appears 28 times per million words in written German, the 2,891st most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Tollen is a German verb meaning “to romp, gambol, cavort” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a strong genitive masculine/neuter singular of toll. With a capital, Tollen is a different word: “gerund of tollen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “sich beim Spiel in ausgelassener Weise oder wild bewegen, umherlaufen (bei Kindern, jungen Tieren)”.
What does tollen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to romp, gambol, cavort
adjective
- 1
masculineneuterstrong genitive masculine/neuter singular
- 2
weak/mixed genitive/dative all-gender singular
- 3
masculinestrong/weak/mixed accusative masculine singular
- 4
strong dative plural
- 5
weak/mixed all-case plural
noun
- 1
neutergerund of tollen
noun
- 1
plural of Tolle
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. sich beim Spiel in ausgelassener Weise oder wild bewegen, umherlaufen (bei Kindern, jungen Tieren)
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 tollen
- tollt present singular third-person
- tollte past
- getollt participle past
- haben auxiliary
- tollend participle present
- tolle first-person indicative present
- tollst indicative present second-person
- tollest second-person singular subjunctive
- tollet plural second-person subjunctive
- tollten first-person indicative plural
- tolltest indicative preterite second-person
- tolltet indicative plural preterite
- toll imperative second-person singular
- habe getollt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben getollt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- toll! imperative singular
- tolle! imperative singular
- tollt! imperative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to tollen
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is tollen in German?
tollen appears 28 times per million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).