robben
German, verb
robben is spelled R-O-B-B-E-N (6 letters) and appears 4.6 times per million words in written German, the 13,123rd most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Robben is a German verb meaning “to creep, to crawl; to move on ground level, lying flatly on the stomach with the help of one's forearms or elbows” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Robben is a different word: “plural of Robbe”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “sich auf dem Bauch liegend vorwärtsbewegen”.
What does robben mean in English?
verb
- 1
to creep, to crawl; to move on ground level, lying flatly on the stomach with the help of one's forearms or elbows
- 2
describing the typical movement of a seal on land; to galumph
noun
- 1
plural of Robbe
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. sich auf dem Bauch liegend vorwärtsbewegen
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 robben
- robbt present singular third-person
- robbte past
- gerobbt participle past
- haben auxiliary
- robbend participle present
- robbe first-person indicative present
- robbst indicative present second-person
- robbest second-person singular subjunctive
- robbet plural second-person subjunctive
- robbten first-person indicative plural
- robbtest indicative preterite second-person
- robbtet indicative plural preterite
- robb imperative second-person singular
- habe gerobbt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben gerobbt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- robb! imperative singular
- robbe! imperative singular
- robbt! imperative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is robben in German?
robben appears 4.6 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).