glimmen
German, verb
glimmen is spelled G-L-I-M-M-E-N (7 letters) and appears about once in every 8 million words in written German, the 146,442nd most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Glimmen is a German verb meaning “to shine” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Glimmen is a different word: “glow”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “ohne Flamme brennen, glühen”.
What does glimmen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to shine
- 2
to glow, to smolder
noun
- 1
neuterglow
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. ohne Flamme brennen, glühen 2. schwach weiter wirken
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 glimmen
- glimmt present singular third-person
- glomm past
- glimmte past
- geglommen participle past
- geglimmt participle past
- glömme past subjunctive
- haben auxiliary
- 3 strong or weak
- glimmend participle present
- glimme first-person indicative present
- glimmst indicative present second-person
- glimmest second-person singular subjunctive
- glimmet plural second-person subjunctive
- glommen first-person indicative plural
- glimmten first-person indicative plural
- glömmen first-person formal plural
- glommst indicative preterite second-person
- glimmtest indicative preterite second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to glimmen
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is glimmen in German?
glimmen appears about once in every 8 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).