Bremse
German, noun
Bremse is spelled B-R-E-M-S-E (6 letters) and appears 4.9 times per million words in written German, the 12,471st most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Bremse is a German feminine noun meaning “brake, device for causing deceleration” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). In lower case, bremse is a different word: “first-person singular present”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “Vorrichtung, die dazu dient, eine Bewegung zu verlangsamen oder anzuhalten”.
What does Bremse mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininebrake, device for causing deceleration
- 2
archaicfeminineany kind of clamp that restricts movement
- 3
archaicfemininein particular, a twitch wherewith particularly in veterinary medicine body parts of a beast (face, testicles etc.) are pinched to perform surgical or similar operations
noun
- 1
femininehorsefly, breezefly, gadfly (fly of the family Tabanidae)
verb
- 1
first-person singular present
- 2
first/third-person singular subjunctive I
- 3
singular imperative
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Vorrichtung, die dazu dient, eine Bewegung zu verlangsamen oder anzuhalten 2. Klemme; Knebel; Schraube 3. an Nase, Lippen oder Ohren eines (störrischen) Pferdes angebrachte Klemme, die dazu dient, dieses, besonders beim Beschlagen, zu bändigen 4. an der Harnröhre angebrachtes Kompressorium, das dazu dient, den Harn bei Inkontinenz zurückzuhalten
noun: 1. (in vielen Arten verbreitete) große, blutsaugende Fliege (Tabanidae), die – je nach Art – grauschwarz bis braungelb gefärbt ist 2. Ohrfeige 3. große Hitze 4. hohe Spielkarte, die nicht übertrumpft werden kann
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 Bremse
- Bremsen plural
- Brems variant
- Premse variant
- Bräme variant
- Brämer variant
- Brämse variant
- Breme variant
- Brömse variant
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to Bremse
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Bremse in German?
Bremse appears 4.9 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).