umarmen
German, verb
umarmen is a German verb meaning “to embrace, to hug” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Umarmen is a different word: “gerund of umarmen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “jemanden oder etwas in die Arme nehmen”.
What does umarmen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to embrace, to hug
Sei umarmt [von deiner/deinem …] (at the end of a letter)
noun
- 1
neutergerund of umarmen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. jemanden oder etwas in die Arme nehmen 2. sich gegenseitig in die Arme nehmen
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 umarmen
- umarmt present singular third-person
- umarmte past
- haben auxiliary
- umarmend participle present
- umarme first-person indicative present
- umarmst indicative present second-person
- umarmest second-person singular subjunctive
- umarmet plural second-person subjunctive
- umarmten first-person indicative plural
- umarmtest indicative preterite second-person
- umarmtet indicative plural preterite
- umarm imperative second-person singular
- habe umarmt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben umarmt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- umarm! imperative singular
- umarme! imperative singular
- umarmt! imperative plural
- umarmt haben active infinitive perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to umarmen
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is umarmen in German?
umarmen appears 3.9 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).