stemmen
German, verb/ˈʃtɛmən/
stemmen is spelled S-T-E-M-M-E-N (7 letters) and appears 2.6 times per million words in written German, the 20,214th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Stemmen is a German verb meaning “to heave, to lift (a heavy load, weights, oneself)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “etwas Schweres in die Höhe heben”.
What does stemmen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to heave, to lift (a heavy load, weights, oneself)
- 2
to brace, to press (a body part against a firm surface)
die Hände in die Hüften stemmen
- 3
to push, to brace oneself (against an obstacle or opposing force)
Er stemmte sich gegen die Menschenmenge.
- 4
to push back against, to try to resist (an undesirable policy, development, or trend)
- 5
to pry (something out of an affixed position with e.g. a chisel or crowbar)
Fliesen von der Wand stemmen
- 6
to manage to handle, to get done (a heavy workload, a difficult project)
- 7
to afford, to manage to pay (a significant cost or financial investment)
- 8
colloquialto drink, to tipple
ein Bierchen stemmen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. etwas Schweres in die Höhe heben 2. gegen etwas drücken 3. mittels Werkzeugen ein Loch, eine Vertiefung in ein Material machen 4. Widerstand leisten
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 stemmen
- stemmt present singular third-person
- stemmte past
- gestemmt participle past
- haben auxiliary
- stemmend participle present
- stemme first-person indicative present
- stemmst indicative present second-person
- stemmest second-person singular subjunctive
- stemmet plural second-person subjunctive
- stemmten first-person indicative plural
- stemmtest indicative preterite second-person
- stemmtet indicative plural preterite
- stemm imperative second-person singular
- habe gestemmt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben gestemmt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- stemm! imperative singular
- stemme! imperative singular
- stemmt! imperative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce stemmen?
- /ˈʃtɛmən/
- [ˈʃtɛmən]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is stemmen in German?
stemmen appears 2.6 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).