umräumen
German, verb
umräumen is spelled U-M-R-Ä-U-M-E-N (8 letters) and appears about once in every 9 million words in written German, the 161,302nd most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Umräumen is a German verb meaning “to rearrange, to reorganize” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Umräumen is a different word: “gerund of umräumen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “etwas von einem Ort an einen anderen Ort legen/bringen/stellen, zum Beispiel um eine neue Ordnung oder Platz…”.
What does umräumen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to rearrange, to reorganize
noun
- 1
neutergerund of umräumen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. etwas von einem Ort an einen anderen Ort legen/bringen/stellen, zum Beispiel um eine neue Ordnung oder Platz zu schaffen
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 umräumen
- räumt um present singular third-person
- räumte um past
- umgeräumt participle past
- haben auxiliary
- umräumend participle present
- umzuräumen infinitive infinitive-zu
- räume um first-person indicative present
- räumen um first-person indicative plural
- räumst um indicative present second-person
- räumest um second-person singular subjunctive
- räumet um plural second-person subjunctive
- räumten um first-person indicative plural
- räumtest um indicative preterite second-person
- räumtet um indicative plural preterite
- räum um! imperative singular
- räume um! imperative singular
- räumt um! imperative plural
- umgeräumt haben active infinitive perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is umräumen in German?
umräumen appears about once in every 9 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).