schrammen
German, verb
schrammen is spelled S-C-H-R-A-M-M-E-N (9 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written German, the 63,211th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Schrammen is a German verb meaning “to scratch, scrape” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Schrammen is a different word: “plural of Schramme”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “so nahe an etwas vorbeikommen, dass etwas eine geringe Beschädigung (Schramme) davonträgt”.
What does schrammen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to scratch, scrape
- 2
to scrape by/against/etc., to squeeze past
Beim Einstieg bin ich leicht abgerutscht und mit dem Knöchel an einem Stein geschrammt.
noun
- 1
plural of Schramme
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. so nahe an etwas vorbeikommen, dass etwas eine geringe Beschädigung (Schramme) davonträgt 2. sich sehr nahe an etwas vorbeibewegen, entlangscheuern
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 schrammen
- schrammt present singular third-person
- schrammte past
- geschrammt participle past
- haben auxiliary
- sein auxiliary
- haben or sein auxiliary
- schrammend participle present
- schramme first-person indicative present
- schrammst indicative present second-person
- schrammest second-person singular subjunctive
- schrammet plural second-person subjunctive
- schrammten first-person indicative plural
- schrammtest indicative preterite second-person
- schrammtet indicative plural preterite
- schramm imperative second-person singular
- schramm! imperative singular
- schramme! imperative singular
- schrammt! imperative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to schrammen
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is schrammen in German?
schrammen 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).