Sentences with German verb knabbern

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Present

  • Er knabbert an seinem Brot. 
    English He is nibbling on his bread.
  • Tom knabbert beim Fernsehen häufig etwas. 
    English Tom often munches on snacks while watching TV.
  • Beim Frühstück knabbere ich an einem Zwieback. 
    English At breakfast, I nibble on a rusk.

Imperfect

  • Und Meister Lampe knabberte an einer Möhre. 
    English And Master Rabbit nibbled on a carrot.
  • Beide hatten eine unübersehbar stramme Figur und waren Genussmenschen, sie knabberten pausenlos Nüsse oder Süßes. 
    English Both had an undeniably tight figure and were pleasure seekers, constantly nibbling on nuts or sweets.

Present Subj.

-

Imperf. Subj.

-

Imperative

-

Infinitive

  • Tom hat die Angewohnheit an seinen Fingernägeln zu knabbern . 
    English Tom has the habit of biting his nails.

Participle

  • Aber sie hatte Kaffee getrunken und ein Plätzchen geknabbert . 
    English But she had drunk coffee and nibbled on a cookie.
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Indicative

Examples sentences for realis mood Active for knabbern

  • Er knabbert an seinem Brot. 
    English He is nibbling on his bread.
  • Tom knabbert beim Fernsehen häufig etwas. 
    English Tom often munches on snacks while watching TV.
  • Und Meister Lampe knabberte an einer Möhre. 
    English And Master Rabbit nibbled on a carrot.
  • Beim Frühstück knabbere ich an einem Zwieback. 
    English At breakfast, I nibble on a rusk.
  • Beide hatten eine unübersehbar stramme Figur und waren Genussmenschen, sie knabberten pausenlos Nüsse oder Süßes. 
    English Both had an undeniably tight figure and were pleasure seekers, constantly nibbling on nuts or sweets.
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Subjunctive

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Conditional (würde)

Conditional (würde)

Imperative

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Translations

Translation of German knabbern

German knabbern
English nibble, gnaw, gnaw (at), mumble, nibble (at), nosh
Russian грызть, кусать, обгладывать, обглодать, обгрызать, обгрызть, погрызть, хрустеть
Spanish roer, masticar, mordiscar, mordisquear, picar
French grignoter, mordiller, croquer, manger, mordre
Turkish kemirmek, ısırmak
Portuguese beliscar, debicar, lambiscar, morder, mordiscar, petiscar, roer
Italian mordicchiare, piluccare, rosicchiare, spizzicare, pizzicare, rosicare, sbocconcellare, sgranocchiare
Romanian mânca, ronțăi
Hungarian majszol, ropogtat, rágcsál
Polish chrupać, gryźć, nibbling, przegryzać, przegryźć, schrupać
Greek μασουλώ, ναγωνίζω, ροκανίζω, τσιμπολογώ
Dutch knabbelen, bijten, knagen, peuzelen
Czech chroupat, hlodat, kousat, ohlodat, schroupat, žvýkat
Swedish knapra, mumsa, nagga
Danish gnave, knase, knaske
Japanese かじる, つまむ, 齧る
Catalan mossegar, picotejar
Finnish nakertaa, napostaa, pureskella
Norwegian gnage, knaske
Basque jateko, mordisko
Serbian grickati, žvakati
Macedonian грицка, грицкање
Slovenian grizljati, žvečiti
Slowakisch hrýzť, žuvať
Bosnian grickati, naglizati
Croatian grickati, zagrizati
Ukrainian гризти, кусати
Bulgarian дъвча, хапя
Belorussian грызці, жаваць
Indonesian menggerogoti, menggigiti
Vietnamese gặm, gặm nhấm
Uzbek kemirmoq
Hindi कुतरना
Chinese 啃, 啃咬
Thai แทะ
Korean 갉아먹다
Azerbaijani gəmirmək
Georgian ღრღნა
Bengali কুরে কুরে খাওয়া
Albanian gërryej
Marathi कुतरणे
Nepali कुतर्नु
Telugu కొరకడం, కొరుకుతూ తినడం
Latvian grauzt
Tamil கொறிதல்
Estonian näksima, närima
Armenian կրծել
Hebrewנשנוש، נשנש
Arabicقضم، قرض، مضغ
Persianریزریزخوردن، مزه مزه کردن، نیش زدن، گاز زدن
Urduناکنا، چبانا

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Definitions

Meanings and synonyms of knabbern
  • kleine, mundgerechte Teile von einem in der Regel harten Nahrungsstück oder ähnlichen Gegenständen abbeißen, essen, daran nagen, nagen
  • schnabulieren, schnurpseln, etwas Süßes essen, nagen, naschen, mümmeln
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* Sentences from the Wiktionary (de.wiktionary.org) are freely available under the license CC BY-SA 3.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.de). Some of them were changed. The authors of the sentences can be looked up via: 67654, 3510, 574093, 101300

* Sentences by Tatoeba (tatoeba.org) are freely available under the CC BY 2.0 FR (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/fr/). Some of them were changed. The authors of the sentences can be looked up via: 1934164, 10813934, 2402107

* Synonyms come partly from OpenThesaurus (openthesaurus.de) and may have been changed afterwards. They are freely available under the CC-BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) license: knabbern

* Definitions come partly from Wiktionary (de.wiktionary.org)> and may have been changed afterwards. They are freely available under the CC-BY-SA 3.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0) license: 67654

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