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voll

German, adjective/fɔl/

voll is spelled V-O-L-L (4 letters) and appears 148 times per million words in written German, the 588th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Voll is a German adjective meaning “full; filled” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “mit etwas so vollständig gefüllt, dass absolut nichts mehr hinein passt oder hinein darf oder hinein gehört”.

What does voll mean in English?

adjective

  1. 1

    full; filled

  2. 2

    colloquialfull (not hungry anymore)

  3. 3

    colloquialdrunk

adverb

  1. 1

    fully

  2. 2

    colloquialvery; quite; really

    Das war voll gut.

suffix

as -voll
  1. 1

    An adjective suffix in a sense of “full of”; -ful

prefix

as voll-
  1. 1

    to do the action of the verb fully or thoroughly; to bring it to completion.

Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How German dictionaries define it

adjective: 1. mit etwas so vollständig gefüllt, dass absolut nichts mehr hinein passt oder hinein darf oder hinein gehört 2. betrunken 3. fast vollständig angefüllt mit etwas 4. mit einem kräftigen, würzigen Aroma oder Geschmack

adverb: 1. in hohem Maße, sehr

preposition: 1. angefüllt mit

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 voll

  • voller masculine nominative singular
  • am vollsten superlative
  • volle feminine nominative singular
  • volles neuter nominative singular
  • vollen genitive masculine singular
  • vollem dative masculine singular
  • der volle definite includes-article masculine
  • die volle definite feminine includes-article
  • das volle definite includes-article neuter
  • die vollen definite includes-article nominative
  • des vollen definite genitive includes-article
  • der vollen definite feminine genitive
  • dem vollen dative definite includes-article

Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce voll?

  • /fɔl/
  • [fɔl]
  • [fɔ̟l]

Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to voll

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is voll in German?

voll appears 148 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).

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