freikommen
German, verb
freikommen is spelled F-R-E-I-K-O-M-M-E-N (10 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written German, the 85,035th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Freikommen is a German verb meaning “to be released (e.g., from prison), to get out” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Freikommen is a different word: “gerund of freikommen”.
What does freikommen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to be released (e.g., from prison), to get out
- 2
to get away (e.g., from a situation), to escape
noun
- 1
neutergerund of freikommen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Forms of freikommen
- kommt frei present singular third-person
- kam frei past
- freigekommen participle past
- haben auxiliary
- 4 strong
- freikommend participle present
- freizukommen infinitive infinitive-zu
- komme frei first-person indicative present
- kommen frei first-person indicative plural
- kommst frei indicative present second-person
- kommest frei second-person singular subjunctive
- kommet frei plural second-person subjunctive
- kamen frei first-person indicative plural
- kame frei first-person singular subjunctive
- kamst frei indicative preterite second-person
- kamt frei indicative plural preterite
- kamest frei second-person singular subjunctive
- kamet frei plural second-person subjunctive
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to freikommen
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is freikommen in German?
freikommen appears about once in every 3 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).