schultern
German, verb
schultern is spelled S-C-H-U-L-T-E-R-N (9 letters) and appears 11 times per million words in written German, the 6,291st most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Schultern is a German verb meaning “to shoulder (to carry something on one's shoulders)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Schultern is a different word: “plural of Schulter "shoulders"”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “transitiv”.
What does schultern mean in English?
verb
- 1
to shoulder (to carry something on one's shoulders)
noun
- 1
plural of Schulter "shoulders"
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. transitiv: 2. auf die Schultern nehmen (und forttragen) 3. bewältigen 4. seinen Gegner oder seine Gegnerin auf den Rücken werfen und mit beiden Schultern (für eine bestimmte Zeit) auf die Matte drücken, um auf diese Weise den Sieg über ihn oder sie davonzutragen
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 schultern
- schultert present singular third-person
- schulterte past
- geschultert participle past
- haben auxiliary
- schulternd participle present
- schultre first-person indicative present
- schultere first-person indicative present
- schulter first-person indicative present
- schulterst indicative present second-person
- schulterest second-person singular subjunctive
- schultrest second-person singular subjunctive
- schulteret plural second-person subjunctive
- schultret plural second-person subjunctive
- schulterten first-person indicative plural
- schultertest indicative preterite second-person
- schultertet indicative plural preterite
- schultere! imperative singular
- schultert! imperative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to schultern
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is schultern in German?
schultern appears 11 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).