mimen
German, verb
mimen is spelled M-I-M-E-N (5 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written German, the 61,377th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Mimen is a German verb meaning “to mime” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Mimen is a different word: “nominative plural”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “schauspielerisch darstellen”.
What does mimen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to mime
noun
- 1
nominative plural
- 2
genitive/dative/accusative singular/plural
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. schauspielerisch darstellen 2. übertragen, abwertend: vortäuschen, tun als ob
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 mimen
- mimt present singular third-person
- mimte past
- gemimt participle past
- haben auxiliary
- mimend participle present
- mime first-person indicative present
- mimst indicative present second-person
- mimest second-person singular subjunctive
- mimet plural second-person subjunctive
- mimten first-person indicative plural
- mimtest indicative preterite second-person
- mimtet indicative plural preterite
- mim imperative second-person singular
- habe gemimt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben gemimt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- mim! imperative singular
- mime! imperative singular
- mimt! imperative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is mimen in German?
mimen appears about once in every 2 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).