schimmern
German, verb
schimmern is spelled S-C-H-I-M-M-E-R-N (9 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written German, the 50,363rd most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Schimmern is a German verb meaning “to glimmer, to shimmer” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Schimmern is a different word: “gerund of schimmern”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “schwach glänzen oder leuchten”.
What does schimmern mean in English?
verb
- 1
to glimmer, to shimmer
noun
- 1
neutergerund of schimmern
noun
- 1
masculinedative plural of Schimmer
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. schwach glänzen oder leuchten 2. durch etwas anderes schwach sichtbar sein
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 schimmern
- schimmert present singular third-person
- schimmerte past
- geschimmert participle past
- haben auxiliary
- schimmernd participle present
- schimmre first-person indicative present
- schimmere first-person indicative present
- schimmer first-person indicative present
- schimmerst indicative present second-person
- schimmerest second-person singular subjunctive
- schimmrest second-person singular subjunctive
- schimmeret plural second-person subjunctive
- schimmret plural second-person subjunctive
- schimmerten first-person indicative plural
- schimmertest indicative preterite second-person
- schimmertet indicative plural preterite
- schimmer! imperative singular
- schimmere! imperative singular
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to schimmern
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is schimmern in German?
schimmern 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).