festklammern
German, verb
festklammern is spelled F-E-S-T-K-L-A-M-M-E-R-N (12 letters) and appears about once in every 6 million words in written German, the 123,622nd most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Festklammern is a German verb meaning “to peg something” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Festklammern is a different word: “gerund of festklammern”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “sich mit aller Kraft festhalten”.
What does festklammern mean in English?
verb
- 1
to peg something
- 2
to latch on, to grasp firmly
noun
- 1
neutergerund of festklammern
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. sich mit aller Kraft festhalten 2. mit Klammern befestigen
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 festklammern
- klammert fest present singular third-person
- klammerte fest past
- festgeklammert participle past
- haben auxiliary
- festklammernd participle present
- festzuklammern infinitive infinitive-zu
- klammre fest first-person indicative present
- klammere fest first-person indicative present
- klammer fest first-person indicative present
- klammern fest first-person indicative plural
- klammerst fest indicative present second-person
- klammerest fest second-person singular subjunctive
- klammrest fest second-person singular subjunctive
- klammeret fest plural second-person subjunctive
- klammret fest plural second-person subjunctive
- klammerten fest first-person indicative plural
- klammertest fest indicative preterite second-person
- klammertet fest indicative plural preterite
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is festklammern in German?
festklammern 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).