draufkommen
German, verb/ˈdʁaʊ̯fˌkɔmən/
draufkommen is spelled D-R-A-U-F-K-O-M-M-E-N (11 letters) and appears about once in every 6 million words in written German, the 125,379th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Draufkommen is a German verb meaning “to guess, find out” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “dahinterkommen, herausfinden, herausbekommen, entdecken, einfallen”.
What does draufkommen mean in English?
verb
- 1
informalto guess, find out
Von alleine wäre ich da nicht draufgekommen.
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. dahinterkommen, herausfinden, herausbekommen, entdecken, einfallen 2. sich erinnern 3. jemandem auf die Schliche kommen, jemanden ertappen, jemanden überführen
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 draufkommen
- kommt drauf present singular third-person
- kam drauf past
- draufgekommen participle past
- käme drauf past subjunctive
- sein auxiliary
- 4 strong
- draufkommend participle present
- draufzukommen infinitive infinitive-zu
- komme drauf first-person indicative present
- kommen drauf first-person indicative plural
- kommst drauf indicative present second-person
- kommest drauf second-person singular subjunctive
- kommet drauf plural second-person subjunctive
- kamen drauf first-person indicative plural
- kämen drauf first-person plural subjunctive
- kamst drauf indicative preterite second-person
- kamt drauf indicative plural preterite
- kämest drauf second-person singular subjunctive
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce draufkommen?
- /ˈdʁaʊ̯fˌkɔmən/
- [ˈdʁaʊ̯fˌkɔmən]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is draufkommen in German?
draufkommen appears about once in every 6 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).