schnüren
German, verb
schnüren is spelled S-C-H-N-Ü-R-E-N (8 letters) and appears 1.1 times per million words in written German, the 36,256th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Schnüren is a German verb meaning “to lace” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Schnüren is a different word: “dative plural of Schnur”. On this page, Schnuren is a different word: “plural of Schnur (“sister-in-law”)”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “etwas mit einer Schnur zusammenbinden”.
What does schnüren mean in English?
verb
- 1
to lace
noun
- 1
femininedative plural of Schnur
noun
- 1
plural of Schnur (“sister-in-law”)
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. etwas mit einer Schnur zusammenbinden 2. langsam laufen und dabei die einzelnen Tritte in einer Linie hintereinandersetzen
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 schnüren
- schnürt present singular third-person
- schnürte past
- geschnürt participle past
- haben auxiliary
- schnürend participle present
- schnüre first-person indicative present
- schnürst indicative present second-person
- schnürest second-person singular subjunctive
- schnüret plural second-person subjunctive
- schnürten first-person indicative plural
- schnürtest indicative preterite second-person
- schnürtet indicative plural preterite
- schnür imperative second-person singular
- habe geschnürt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben geschnürt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- schnüre! imperative singular
- schnürt! imperative plural
- geschnürt haben active infinitive perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to schnüren
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is schnüren in German?
schnüren appears 1.1 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).