timen
German, verb
timen is spelled T-I-M-E-N (5 letters) and appears about once in every 7 million words in written German, the 138,538th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Timen is a German verb meaning “to time (e.g. with a stopwatch)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Timen is a different word: “gerund of timen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “die Zeit (mittels einer Stoppuhr) messen”.
What does timen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to time (e.g. with a stopwatch)
noun
- 1
neutergerund of timen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. die Zeit (mittels einer Stoppuhr) messen 2. den passenden Zeitpunkt für etwas bestimmen
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 timen
- timt present singular third-person
- timet present proscribed singular
- timte past
- timete past proscribed
- getimt participle past
- getimed participle past
- getimet participle past proscribed
- haben auxiliary
- timend participle present
- time first-person indicative present
- timst indicative present second-person
- timest indicative present proscribed
- timten first-person indicative plural
- timeten first-person indicative plural
- timtest indicative preterite second-person
- timetest indicative preterite proscribed
- tim! imperative singular
- time! imperative singular
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is timen in German?
timen appears about once in every 7 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).