schäumen
German, verb
schäumen is spelled S-C-H-Ä-U-M-E-N (8 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written German, the 71,199th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Schäumen is a German verb meaning “to froth, to foam” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Schäumen is a different word: “foaming”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “Schaum entwickeln”.
What does schäumen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to froth, to foam
- 2
to fume (to feel or express great anger)
noun
- 1
neutergerund of schäumen
- 2
neuterfoaming
noun
- 1
masculinedative plural of Schaum
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Schaum entwickeln 2. Wut empfinden 3. durch Versetzen mit Gas porös machen
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 schäumen
- schäumt present singular third-person
- schäumte past
- geschäumt participle past
- haben auxiliary
- schäumend participle present
- schäume first-person indicative present
- schäumst indicative present second-person
- schäumest second-person singular subjunctive
- schäumet plural second-person subjunctive
- schäumten first-person indicative plural
- schäumtest indicative preterite second-person
- schäumtet indicative plural preterite
- schäum imperative second-person singular
- habe geschäumt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben geschäumt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- schäum! imperative singular
- schäume! imperative singular
- schäumt! imperative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to schäumen
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is schäumen in German?
schäumen 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).