stümpern
German, verb
stümpern is spelled S-T-Ü-M-P-E-R-N (8 letters) and appears about once in every 34 million words in written German, the 343,581st most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Stümpern is a German verb meaning “bungle, botch” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Stümpern is a different word: “dative plural of Stümper”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “eine Arbeit/Aufgabe auf eine stümperhafte, wenig professionelle Art und Weise erledigen”.
What does stümpern mean in English?
verb
- 1
derogatorybungle, botch
noun
- 1
dative plural of Stümper
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. eine Arbeit/Aufgabe auf eine stümperhafte, wenig professionelle Art und Weise erledigen
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 stümpern
- stümpert present singular third-person
- stümperte past
- gestümpert participle past
- haben auxiliary
- stümpernd participle present
- stümpre first-person indicative present
- stümpere first-person indicative present
- stümper first-person indicative present
- stümperst indicative present second-person
- stümperest second-person singular subjunctive
- stümprest second-person singular subjunctive
- stümperet plural second-person subjunctive
- stümpret plural second-person subjunctive
- stümperten first-person indicative plural
- stümpertest indicative preterite second-person
- stümpertet indicative plural preterite
- stümper! imperative singular
- stümpere! imperative singular
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is stümpern in German?
stümpern appears about once in every 34 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).