keimen
German, verb
keimen is a German verb meaning “to sprout, germinate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Keimen is a different word: “dative plural of Keim”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “aus einem Keim wachsen, aus der Erde wachsen”.
What does keimen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to sprout, germinate
- 2
to stir (e.g. hope)
- 3
to form (e.g. thought, decision)
- 4
to awaken (e.g. love, yearning)
noun
- 1
masculinedative plural of Keim
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. aus einem Keim wachsen, aus der Erde wachsen 2. sich zu entwickeln beginnen
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 keimen
- keimt present singular third-person
- keimte past
- gekeimt participle past
- haben auxiliary
- keimend participle present
- keime first-person indicative present
- keimst indicative present second-person
- keimest second-person singular subjunctive
- keimet plural second-person subjunctive
- keimten first-person indicative plural
- keimtest indicative preterite second-person
- keimtet indicative plural preterite
- keim imperative second-person singular
- habe gekeimt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben gekeimt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- keim! imperative singular
- keime! imperative singular
- keimt! imperative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to keimen
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is keimen in German?
keimen appears 1.3 times per million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).