verklemmen
German, verb
verklemmen is spelled V-E-R-K-L-E-M-M-E-N (10 letters) and appears about once in every 18 million words in written German, the 241,486th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Verklemmen is a German verb meaning “to jam something; to clamp; to hem in” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Verklemmen is a different word: “gerund of verklemmen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “in eine Position geraten, in der etwas sich nicht mehr bewegen lässt, weil es irgendwo festhängt (etwas…”.
What does verklemmen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to jam something; to clamp; to hem in
- 2
to become jammed
noun
- 1
neutergerund of verklemmen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. in eine Position geraten, in der etwas sich nicht mehr bewegen lässt, weil es irgendwo festhängt (etwas eingeklemmt ist) 2. etwas in eine Position bringen, in der es sich nicht mehr bewegen lässt
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 verklemmen
- verklemmt present singular third-person
- verklemmte past
- haben auxiliary
- verklemmend participle present
- verklemme first-person indicative present
- verklemmst indicative present second-person
- verklemmest second-person singular subjunctive
- verklemmet plural second-person subjunctive
- verklemmten first-person indicative plural
- verklemmtest indicative preterite second-person
- verklemmtet indicative plural preterite
- verklemm imperative second-person singular
- habe verklemmt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben verklemmt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- verklemm! imperative singular
- verklemme! imperative singular
- verklemmt! imperative plural
- verklemmt haben active infinitive perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is verklemmen in German?
verklemmen appears about once in every 18 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).