schippen
German, verb
schippen is spelled S-C-H-I-P-P-E-N (8 letters) and appears about once in every 6 million words in written German, the 121,881st most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Schippen is a German verb meaning “to shovel” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Schippen is a different word: “plural of Schippe”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “Erde/Sand oder andere Dinge (beispielsweise Schnee) mit einem schaufelartigen Gerät (beispielsweise einer…”.
What does schippen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to shovel
noun
- 1
plural of Schippe
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Erde/Sand oder andere Dinge (beispielsweise Schnee) mit einem schaufelartigen Gerät (beispielsweise einer Schippe, einem Schneeschieber) bewegen
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 schippen
- schippt present singular third-person
- schippte past
- geschippt participle past
- haben auxiliary
- schippend participle present
- schippe first-person indicative present
- schippst indicative present second-person
- schippest second-person singular subjunctive
- schippet plural second-person subjunctive
- schippten first-person indicative plural
- schipptest indicative preterite second-person
- schipptet indicative plural preterite
- schipp imperative second-person singular
- habe geschippt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben geschippt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- schipp! imperative singular
- schippe! imperative singular
- schippt! imperative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to schippen
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is schippen in German?
schippen appears about once in every 6 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).