filmen
German, verb
filmen is spelled F-I-L-M-E-N (6 letters) and appears 23 times per million words in written German, the 3,441st most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Filmen is a German verb meaning “to film, to shoot” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Filmen is a different word: “dative plural of Film”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “einen Film erstellen, bewegte Bilder auf Film oder elektronisch festhalten”.
What does filmen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to film, to shoot
noun
- 1
masculinedative plural of Film
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. einen Film erstellen, bewegte Bilder auf Film oder elektronisch festhalten 2. in einem Film mitwirken
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 filmen
- filmt present singular third-person
- filmte past
- gefilmt participle past
- haben auxiliary
- filmend participle present
- filme first-person indicative present
- filmst indicative present second-person
- filmest second-person singular subjunctive
- filmet plural second-person subjunctive
- filmten first-person indicative plural
- filmtest indicative preterite second-person
- filmtet indicative plural preterite
- film imperative second-person singular
- habe gefilmt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben gefilmt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- film! imperative singular
- filme! imperative singular
- filmt! imperative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to filmen
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is filmen in German?
filmen appears 23 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).