kämmen
German, verb
kämmen is spelled K-Ä-M-M-E-N (6 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written German, the 41,097th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Kämmen is a German verb meaning “to groom (hair), to comb, brush” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Kämmen is a different word: “dative plural of Kamm”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “mithilfe eines Kammes die Haare richten”.
What does kämmen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to groom (hair), to comb, brush
Ich kämme dir kurz die Haare.
- 2
to groom someone’s hair
Ich kämme dich kurz.
noun
- 1
masculinedative plural of Kamm
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. mithilfe eines Kammes die Haare richten 2. Fasern oder Tierhaare in eine bestimmte Richtung bürsten und dabei auch unerwünschte Verunreinigungen entfernen
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 kämmen
- kämmt present singular third-person
- kämmte past
- gekämmt participle past
- haben auxiliary
- kämmend participle present
- kämme first-person indicative present
- kämmst indicative present second-person
- kämmest second-person singular subjunctive
- kämmet plural second-person subjunctive
- kämmten first-person indicative plural
- kämmtest indicative preterite second-person
- kämmtet indicative plural preterite
- kämm imperative second-person singular
- habe gekämmt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben gekämmt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- kämme! imperative singular
- kämm! imperative singular
- kämmt! imperative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to kämmen
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is kämmen in German?
kämmen appears about once in every 1 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).