stimmen
German, verb
stimmen is spelled S-T-I-M-M-E-N (7 letters) and appears 91 times per million words in written German, the 960th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Stimmen is a German verb meaning “to be right, to be correct, to be proper, to be true” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Stimmen is a different word: “plural of Stimme”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “die Tonlage (Stimmlage) eines Instrumentes verändern”.
What does stimmen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to be right, to be correct, to be proper, to be true
Was stimmt mit dir nicht?
- 2
to vote
Ich persönlich werde dafür stimmen.
- 3
to tune
- 4
to make (someone happy, sad, etc.)
Seine Antwort stimmte sie nachdenklich.
noun
- 1
plural of Stimme
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. die Tonlage (Stimmlage) eines Instrumentes verändern 2. an einer Wahl oder einer Abstimmung aktiv teilnehmen (sie beeinflussen) 3. zutreffend sein, den Tatsachen entsprechen, keinen Anlass zu Beanstandungen geben 4. emotional beeinflussen
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 stimmen
- stimmt present singular third-person
- stimmte past
- gestimmt participle past
- haben auxiliary
- stimmend participle present
- stimme first-person indicative present
- stimmst indicative present second-person
- stimmest second-person singular subjunctive
- stimmet plural second-person subjunctive
- stimmten first-person indicative plural
- stimmtest indicative preterite second-person
- stimmtet indicative plural preterite
- stimm imperative second-person singular
- habe gestimmt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben gestimmt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- stimm! imperative singular
- stimme! imperative singular
- stimmt! imperative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to stimmen
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is stimmen in German?
stimmen appears 91 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).