wärmen
German, verb
wärmen is spelled W-Ä-R-M-E-N (6 letters) and appears 10 times per million words in written German, the 6,780th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Wärmen is a German verb meaning “to warm” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). Without its umlaut, warmen is a different word: “strong genitive masculine/neuter singular”. With a capital, Wärmen is a different word: “gerund of wärmen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “Wärme abgeben, halten oder reflektieren”.
What does wärmen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to warm
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
noun
- 1
neutergerund of wärmen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Wärme abgeben, halten oder reflektieren 2. jemandem oder etwas Wärme verschaffen
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 wärmen
- wärmt present singular third-person
- wärmte past
- gewärmt participle past
- haben auxiliary
- wärmend participle present
- wärme first-person indicative present
- wärmst indicative present second-person
- wärmest second-person singular subjunctive
- wärmet plural second-person subjunctive
- wärmten first-person indicative plural
- wärmtest indicative preterite second-person
- wärmtet indicative plural preterite
- wärm imperative second-person singular
- habe gewärmt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben gewärmt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- wärm! imperative singular
- wärme! imperative singular
- wärmt! imperative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to wärmen
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is wärmen in German?
wärmen appears 10 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).