stürmen
German, verb
stürmen is spelled S-T-Ü-R-M-E-N (7 letters) and appears 5.4 times per million words in written German, the 11,619th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Stürmen is a German verb meaning “to storm, to be blustery” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Stürmen is a different word: “dative plural of Sturm”. Without its umlaut, sturmen is a different word: “strong genitive masculine/neuter singular”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “sehr schnell laufen (besonders: ohne links und rechts zu schauen von etwas weg oder auf etwas zu)”.
What does stürmen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to storm, to be blustery
Es stürmt.
- 2
to rush, to charge (on foot, especially in anger)
Er ist wütend nach draußen gestürmt.
- 3
to attack, to play as forward
Sie haben viel gestürmt, aber wenig echte Chancen herausgespielt.
- 4
to storm, to assault, to conduct a violent, often frontal attack
Infanterieeinheiten stürmen derzeit das Dorf.
- 5
to crowd, to flock to
Binnen Minuten stürmten Tausende Fans die Ticketschalter.
noun
- 1
masculinedative plural of Sturm
adjective
- 1
masculineneuterstrong genitive masculine/neuter singular
- 2
weak/mixed genitive/dative all-gender singular
- 3
masculinestrong/weak/mixed accusative masculine singular
- 4
strong dative plural
- 5
weak/mixed all-case plural
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. sehr schnell laufen (besonders: ohne links und rechts zu schauen von etwas weg oder auf etwas zu) 2. sehr windig sein 3. einen Ort gegen Widerstand einnehmen 4. einen nach vorne auf den Gegner gerichteten Angriff unternehmen
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 stürmen
- stürmt present singular third-person
- stürmte past
- gestürmt participle past
- haben auxiliary
- sein auxiliary
- haben or sein auxiliary
- stürmend participle present
- stürme first-person indicative present
- stürmst indicative present second-person
- stürmest second-person singular subjunctive
- stürmet plural second-person subjunctive
- stürmten first-person indicative plural
- stürmtest indicative preterite second-person
- stürmtet indicative plural preterite
- stürm imperative second-person singular
- stürm! imperative singular
- stürme! imperative singular
- stürmt! imperative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to stürmen
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is stürmen in German?
stürmen appears 5.4 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).