schleimen
German, verb
schleimen is spelled S-C-H-L-E-I-M-E-N (9 letters) and appears about once in every 6 million words in written German, the 123,622nd most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Schleimen is a German verb meaning “to slime” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Schleimen is a different word: “dative plural of Schleim”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “ein zähflüssiges Sekret absondern”.
What does schleimen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to slime
- 2
to smarm, to fawn on
noun
- 1
masculinedative plural of Schleim
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. ein zähflüssiges Sekret absondern 2. durch (übertriebene) Zuneigung / Zuwendung die Gunst von jemandem erlangen wollen
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 schleimen
- schleimt present singular third-person
- schleimte past
- geschleimt participle past
- haben auxiliary
- schleimend participle present
- schleime first-person indicative present
- schleimst indicative present second-person
- schleimest second-person singular subjunctive
- schleimet plural second-person subjunctive
- schleimten first-person indicative plural
- schleimtest indicative preterite second-person
- schleimtet indicative plural preterite
- schleim imperative second-person singular
- habe geschleimt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben geschleimt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- schleim! imperative singular
- schleime! imperative singular
- schleimt! imperative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to schleimen
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is schleimen in German?
schleimen 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).