zoffen
German, verb
zoffen is spelled Z-O-F-F-E-N (6 letters) and appears about once in every 9 million words in written German, the 161,302nd most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Zoffen is a German verb meaning “to bicker” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Zoffen is a different word: “gerund of zoffen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “mit jemandem Ärger/Streit, ‚Zoff‘ haben”.
What does zoffen mean in English?
verb
- 1
colloquialto bicker
noun
- 1
neutergerund of zoffen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. mit jemandem Ärger/Streit, ‚Zoff‘ haben
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 zoffen
- zofft present singular third-person
- zoffte past
- gezofft participle past
- haben auxiliary
- zoffend participle present
- zoffe first-person indicative present
- zoffst indicative present second-person
- zoffest second-person singular subjunctive
- zoffet plural second-person subjunctive
- zofften first-person indicative plural
- zofftest indicative preterite second-person
- zofftet indicative plural preterite
- zoff imperative second-person singular
- habe gezofft first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben gezofft first-person indicative multiword-construction
- zoff! imperative singular
- zofft! imperative plural
- sich zoffen infinitive present not-extended
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is zoffen in German?
zoffen appears about once in every 9 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).