umbringen
German, verb
umbringen is a German verb meaning “to kill, to murder, to do away with” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Umbringen is a different word: “gerund of umbringen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “jemanden töten, jemanden ums Leben bringen”.
What does umbringen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to kill, to murder, to do away with
- 2
to commit suicide
noun
- 1
neutergerund of umbringen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. jemanden töten, jemanden ums Leben bringen 2. sich selbst töten 3. sich/jemanden sehr anstrengen 4. etwas auf sehr übertriebene Weise machen
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 umbringen
- bringt um present singular third-person
- brachte um past
- umgebracht participle past
- brächte um past subjunctive
- haben auxiliary
- umbringend participle present
- umzubringen infinitive infinitive-zu
- bringe um first-person indicative present
- bringen um first-person indicative plural
- bringst um indicative present second-person
- bringest um second-person singular subjunctive
- bringet um plural second-person subjunctive
- brachten um first-person indicative plural
- brächten um first-person plural subjunctive
- brachtest um indicative preterite second-person
- brachtet um indicative plural preterite
- brächtest um second-person singular subjunctive
- brächtet um plural second-person subjunctive
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to umbringen
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is umbringen in German?
umbringen appears 7.9 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).