knobeln
German
    
    Etymology
    
Allied to a widely diffused dialectic form knöbel (Upper German), knöwel (Middle German and Low German), ‘joint,’ especially of the fingers.[1]
Pronunciation
    
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- Hyphenation: kno‧beln
Verb
    
knobeln (weak, third-person singular present knobelt, past tense knobelte, past participle geknobelt, auxiliary haben)
Conjugation
    
| infinitive | knobeln | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| present participle | knobelnd | ||||
| past participle | geknobelt | ||||
| auxiliary | haben | ||||
| indicative | subjunctive | ||||
| singular | plural | singular | plural | ||
| present | ich knoble ich knobele ich knobel | wir knobeln | i | ich knobele ich knoble | wir knobeln | 
| du knobelst | ihr knobelt | du knobelest du knoblest | ihr knobelet ihr knoblet | ||
| er knobelt | sie knobeln | er knobele er knoble | sie knobeln | ||
| preterite | ich knobelte | wir knobelten | ii | ich knobelte1 | wir knobelten1 | 
| du knobeltest | ihr knobeltet | du knobeltest1 | ihr knobeltet1 | ||
| er knobelte | sie knobelten | er knobelte1 | sie knobelten1 | ||
| imperative | knoble (du) knobel (du) knobele (du) | knobelt (ihr) | |||
1Rare except in very formal contexts; alternative in würde normally preferred.
Derived terms
    
- ausknobeln
- Knobelspiel
Related terms
    
- Knobelbecher
References
    
- Friedrich Kluge (2011) “knobeln”, in Elmar Seebold, editor, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the German Language] (in German), 25th edition, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN
Further reading
    
 knobeln on the German  Wikipedia.Wikipedia de knobeln on the German  Wikipedia.Wikipedia de
- “knobeln” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “knobeln” in Duden online
- “knobeln” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
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