hemmen
German, verb/ˈhɛmən/
hemmen is spelled H-E-M-M-E-N (6 letters) and appears 1.2 times per million words in written German, the 34,034th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Hemmen is a German verb meaning “to check” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “etwas hindern”.
What does hemmen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to check
- 2
to hinder, to hamper
Die Bürokratie hemmt viele gute Projekte.
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. etwas hindern
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 hemmen
- hemmt present singular third-person
- hemmte past
- gehemmt participle past
- haben auxiliary
- hemmend participle present
- hemme first-person indicative present
- hemmst indicative present second-person
- hemmest second-person singular subjunctive
- hemmet plural second-person subjunctive
- hemmten first-person indicative plural
- hemmtest indicative preterite second-person
- hemmtet indicative plural preterite
- hemm imperative second-person singular
- habe gehemmt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben gehemmt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- hemm! imperative singular
- hemme! imperative singular
- hemmt! imperative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce hemmen?
- /ˈhɛmən/
- [ˈhɛmən]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to hemmen
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is hemmen in German?
hemmen appears 1.2 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).