klopfen

German

Etymology

From Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value), from Old High German clophōn, from Proto-West Germanic *kloppōn, from Proto-Germanic *kluppōną. Cognate with Dutch kloppen, English club. See also the informal doublet kloppen (“to thump, beat, fight”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈklɔpfən/, [ˈklɔpfn̩], [ˈklɔpɸn̩]
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Verb

klopfen (weak, third-person singular present klopft, past tense klopfte, past participle geklopft, auxiliary haben)

  1. to knock, to rap (strike rather gently with something hard)
  2. (physiology, of the heart) to throb; to beat quickly or audibly

Conjugation

Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

Derived terms

Further reading
  • “klopfen” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
  • “klopfen” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
  • “klopfen” in Duden online
  • “klopfen” in OpenThesaurus.de
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