dimmen
German, verb/dɪmən/
dimmen is spelled D-I-M-M-E-N (6 letters) and appears about once in every 9 million words in written German, the 156,943rd most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Dimmen is a German verb meaning “to dim” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “die Helligkeit einer Lampe stufenlos verringern”.
What does dimmen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to dim
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. die Helligkeit einer Lampe stufenlos verringern
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 dimmen
- dimmt present singular third-person
- dimmte past
- gedimmt participle past
- haben auxiliary
- dimmend participle present
- dimme first-person indicative present
- dimmst indicative present second-person
- dimmest second-person singular subjunctive
- dimmet plural second-person subjunctive
- dimmten first-person indicative plural
- dimmtest indicative preterite second-person
- dimmtet indicative plural preterite
- dimm imperative second-person singular
- habe gedimmt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben gedimmt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- dimm! imperative singular
- dimme! imperative singular
- dimmt! imperative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce dimmen?
- /dɪmən/
- [dɪmn̩]
- [dɪmm̩]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to dimmen
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is dimmen in German?
dimmen appears about once in every 9 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).