schirmen
German, verb
schirmen is spelled S-C-H-I-R-M-E-N (8 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written German, the 60,441st most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Schirmen is a German verb meaning “to shield” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Schirmen is a different word: “dative plural of Schirm”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “wie ein Schutz (Schirm) wirken”.
What does schirmen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to shield
- 2
to screen or protect
noun
- 1
masculinedative plural of Schirm
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. wie ein Schutz (Schirm) wirken
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 schirmen
- schirmt present singular third-person
- schirmte past
- geschirmt participle past
- haben auxiliary
- schirmend participle present
- schirme first-person indicative present
- schirmst indicative present second-person
- schirmest second-person singular subjunctive
- schirmet plural second-person subjunctive
- schirmten first-person indicative plural
- schirmtest indicative preterite second-person
- schirmtet indicative plural preterite
- schirm imperative second-person singular
- habe geschirmt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben geschirmt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- schirm! imperative singular
- schirme! imperative singular
- schirmt! imperative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is schirmen in German?
schirmen 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).