schmücken
German, verb
schmücken is spelled S-C-H-M-Ü-C-K-E-N (9 letters) and appears 3.1 times per million words in written German, the 17,543rd most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Schmücken is a German verb meaning “to adorn, to decorate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). Without its umlaut, schmucken is a different word: “strong genitive masculine/neuter singular”. On this page, Schmucken is a different word: “dative plural of Schmuck”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “mit Schmuck ausstatten, mit Ziergegenständen verschönern”.
What does schmücken mean in English?
verb
- 1
to adorn, to decorate
adjective
- 1
masculineneuterstrong genitive masculine/neuter singular
- 2
weak/mixed genitive/dative all-gender singular
- 3
masculinestrong/weak/mixed accusative masculine singular
- 4
strong dative plural
- 5
weak/mixed all-case plural
noun
- 1
masculinedative plural of Schmuck
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. mit Schmuck ausstatten, mit Ziergegenständen verschönern
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 schmücken
- schmückt present singular third-person
- schmückte past
- geschmückt participle past
- haben auxiliary
- schmückend participle present
- schmücke first-person indicative present
- schmückst indicative present second-person
- schmückest second-person singular subjunctive
- schmücket plural second-person subjunctive
- schmückten first-person indicative plural
- schmücktest indicative preterite second-person
- schmücktet indicative plural preterite
- schmück imperative second-person singular
- habe geschmückt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben geschmückt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- schmücke! imperative singular
- schmückt! imperative plural
- geschmückt haben active infinitive perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to schmücken
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is schmücken in German?
schmücken appears 3.1 times per million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).