bummeln
German, verb
bummeln is spelled B-U-M-M-E-L-N (7 letters) and appears 1.0 times per million words in written German, the 38,647th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Bummeln is a German verb meaning “to slack, to dawdle” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Bummeln is a different word: “dative plural of Bummel”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “langsam spazieren gehen”.
What does bummeln mean in English?
verb
- 1
to slack, to dawdle
- 2
to stroll, to ramble
- 3
archaicarchaic form of baumeln (“to hang slack, dangle”)
noun
- 1
masculinedative plural of Bummel
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. langsam spazieren gehen 2. nichts weiterbringen, nichts tun 3. etwas sehr langsam tun 4. einkaufen gehen, durch die Geschäfte ziehen
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 bummeln
- bummelt present singular third-person
- bummelte past
- gebummelt participle past
- haben auxiliary
- sein auxiliary
- haben or sein auxiliary
- bummelnd participle present
- bummle first-person indicative present
- bummele first-person indicative present
- bummel first-person indicative present
- bummelst indicative present second-person
- bummelest second-person singular subjunctive
- bummlest second-person singular subjunctive
- bummelet plural second-person subjunctive
- bummlet plural second-person subjunctive
- bummelten first-person indicative plural
- bummeltest indicative preterite second-person
- bummeltet indicative plural preterite
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to bummeln
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is bummeln in German?
bummeln appears 1.0 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).