knattern

German

Etymology

Since the end of the 17th century, of imitative origin, probably from Central German. See also knittern.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈknatɐn]
  • Hyphenation: knat‧tern
  • (file)

Verb

knattern (weak, third-person singular present knattert, past tense knatterte, past participle geknattert, auxiliary haben)

  1. to rattle

Conjugation

References

  1. Wolfgang Pfeifer, editor (1993), “knattern”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Deutschen (in German), 2nd edition, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN

Further reading

  • knattern” in Duden online
  • knattern” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
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