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stammeln

German, verb/ˈʃtaml̩n/

stammeln is spelled S-T-A-M-M-E-L-N (8 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written German, the 91,399th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Stammeln is a German verb meaning “to stammer” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “zögerlich, unzusammenhängend und undeutlich sprechen”.

What does stammeln mean in English?

verb

  1. 1

    to stammer

Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How German dictionaries define it

verb: 1. zögerlich, unzusammenhängend und undeutlich sprechen

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 stammeln

  • stammelt present singular third-person
  • stammelte past
  • gestammelt participle past
  • haben auxiliary
  • stammelnd participle present
  • stammle first-person indicative present
  • stammele first-person indicative present
  • stammel first-person indicative present
  • stammelst indicative present second-person
  • stammelest second-person singular subjunctive
  • stammlest second-person singular subjunctive
  • stammelet plural second-person subjunctive
  • stammlet plural second-person subjunctive
  • stammelten first-person indicative plural
  • stammeltest indicative preterite second-person
  • stammeltet indicative plural preterite
  • stammle! imperative singular
  • stammelt! imperative plural

Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce stammeln?

  • /ˈʃtaml̩n/
  • [ˈʃtaml̩n]

Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to stammeln

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is stammeln in German?

stammeln appears about once in every 4 million words in written German.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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