rammen
German, verb
rammen is spelled R-A-M-M-E-N (6 letters) and appears 1.1 times per million words in written German, the 35,692nd most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Rammen is a German verb meaning “to ram” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Rammen is a different word: “plural of Ramme”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “etwas mit Kraft in etwas stoßen”.
What does rammen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to ram
noun
- 1
plural of Ramme
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. etwas mit Kraft in etwas stoßen 2. mit Wucht an etwas stoßen 3. in die Seite eines Fahrzeugs fahren und es dadurch beschädigen
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 rammen
- rammt present singular third-person
- rammte past
- gerammt participle past
- haben auxiliary
- rammend participle present
- ramme first-person indicative present
- rammst indicative present second-person
- rammest second-person singular subjunctive
- rammet plural second-person subjunctive
- rammten first-person indicative plural
- rammtest indicative preterite second-person
- rammtet indicative plural preterite
- ramm imperative second-person singular
- habe gerammt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben gerammt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- ramme! imperative singular
- rammt! imperative plural
- gerammt haben active infinitive perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to rammen
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is rammen in German?
rammen appears 1.1 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).