rühmen
German, verb[ˈʁyːmən]
rühmen is spelled R-Ü-H-M-E-N (6 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written German, the 48,795th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Rühmen is a German verb meaning “to praise” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “etwas oder jemanden mit positiven Worten hervorheben”.
What does rühmen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to praise
- 2
to boast
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. etwas oder jemanden mit positiven Worten hervorheben
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 rühmen
- rühmt present singular third-person
- rühmte past
- gerühmt participle past
- haben auxiliary
- rühmend participle present
- rühme first-person indicative present
- rühmst indicative present second-person
- rühmest second-person singular subjunctive
- rühmet plural second-person subjunctive
- rühmten first-person indicative plural
- rühmtest indicative preterite second-person
- rühmtet indicative plural preterite
- rühm imperative second-person singular
- habe gerühmt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben gerühmt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- rühm! imperative singular
- rühme! imperative singular
- rühmt! imperative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce rühmen?
- [ˈʁyːmən]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is rühmen in German?
rühmen 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).