jammern
German, verb
jammern is spelled J-A-M-M-E-R-N (7 letters) and appears 5.4 times per million words in written German, the 11,619th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Jammern is a German verb meaning “to wail, whine, moan, lament, whinge” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Jammern is a different word: “dative plural of Jammer”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “sich weinerlich (und traurig) beschweren, wehklagen”.
What does jammern mean in English?
verb
- 1
to wail, whine, moan, lament, whinge
noun
- 1
dative plural of Jammer
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. sich weinerlich (und traurig) beschweren, wehklagen 2. etwas oder jemand betrübt, bekümmert, dauert jemanden
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 jammern
- jammert present singular third-person
- jammerte past
- gejammert participle past
- haben auxiliary
- jammernd participle present
- jammre first-person indicative present
- jammere first-person indicative present
- jammer first-person indicative present
- jammerst indicative present second-person
- jammerest second-person singular subjunctive
- jammrest second-person singular subjunctive
- jammeret plural second-person subjunctive
- jammret plural second-person subjunctive
- jammerten first-person indicative plural
- jammertest indicative preterite second-person
- jammertet indicative plural preterite
- jammere! imperative singular
- jammert! imperative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to jammern
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is jammern in German?
jammern appears 5.4 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).