lähme
German, verb
lähme is spelled L-Ä-H-M-E (5 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written German, the 44,523rd most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Lähme is a German verb meaning “first-person singular present” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). Without its umlaut, lahme is a different word: “strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular”.
What does lähme mean in English?
verb
- 1
first-person singular present
- 2
first/third-person singular subjunctive I
- 3
singular imperative
adjective
- 1
femininestrong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
- 2
strong nominative/accusative plural
- 3
weak nominative all-gender singular
- 4
feminineneuterweak accusative feminine/neuter singular
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. weibliche Person, die ein Bein nicht richtig belasten kann, zum Beispiel einen Hinkefuss hat
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 lähme
- Lahmer masculine
- Lahmen dative plural
- die Lahme nominative singular
- die Lahmen nominative plural
- der Lahmen genitive singular
- den Lahmen dative plural
- eine Lahme nominative singular
- keine Lahmen nominative plural
- einer Lahmen genitive singular
- keiner Lahmen genitive plural
- keinen Lahmen dative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is lähme in German?
lähme 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).