totlaufen
German, verb
totlaufen is spelled T-O-T-L-A-U-F-E-N (9 letters) and appears about once in every 54 million words in written German, the 446,287th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Totlaufen is a German verb meaning “to peter out” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Totlaufen is a different word: “gerund of totlaufen”.
What does totlaufen mean in English?
verb
- 1
colloquialto peter out
noun
- 1
neutergerund of totlaufen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Forms of totlaufen
- läuft tot present singular third-person
- lief tot past
- totgelaufen participle past
- haben auxiliary
- 7 strong
- totlaufend participle present
- totzulaufen infinitive infinitive-zu
- laufe tot first-person indicative present
- laufen tot first-person indicative plural
- läufst tot indicative present second-person
- lauft tot indicative plural present
- laufest tot second-person singular subjunctive
- laufet tot plural second-person subjunctive
- liefen tot first-person indicative plural
- liefe tot first-person singular subjunctive
- liefst tot indicative preterite second-person
- lieft tot indicative plural preterite
- liefest tot second-person singular subjunctive
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to totlaufen
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is totlaufen in German?
totlaufen appears about once in every 54 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).