runterkommen
German, verb/ˈʁʊntɐˌkɔmən/
runterkommen is spelled R-U-N-T-E-R-K-O-M-M-E-N (12 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written German, the 41,097th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Runterkommen is a German verb meaning “clipping of herunterkommen” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
What does runterkommen mean in English?
verb
- 1
colloquialclipping of herunterkommen
- 2
colloquialto calm down
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Forms of runterkommen
- kommt runter present singular third-person
- kam runter past
- runtergekommen participle past
- käme runter past subjunctive
- sein auxiliary
- 4 strong
- runterkommend participle present
- runterzukommen infinitive infinitive-zu
- komme runter first-person indicative present
- kommen runter first-person indicative plural
- kommst runter indicative present second-person
- kommest runter second-person singular subjunctive
- kommet runter plural second-person subjunctive
- kamen runter first-person indicative plural
- kämen runter first-person plural subjunctive
- kamst runter indicative preterite second-person
- kamt runter indicative plural preterite
- kämest runter second-person singular subjunctive
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce runterkommen?
- /ˈʁʊntɐˌkɔmən/
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is runterkommen in German?
runterkommen 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).