warmhalten
German, verb
warmhalten is spelled W-A-R-M-H-A-L-T-E-N (10 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written German, the 104,034th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Warmhalten is a German verb meaning “to keep warm” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Warmhalten is a different word: “gerund of warmhalten”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “dafür sorgen, dass einem jemand gewogen bleibt, dass gute Beziehungen bestehen bleiben”.
What does warmhalten mean in English?
verb
- 1
to keep warm
- 2
colloquialto stay on someone's good side
noun
- 1
neutergerund of warmhalten
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. dafür sorgen, dass einem jemand gewogen bleibt, dass gute Beziehungen bestehen bleiben
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 warmhalten
- hält warm present singular third-person
- hielt warm past
- warmgehalten participle past
- haben auxiliary
- 7 strong
- warmhaltend participle present
- warmzuhalten infinitive infinitive-zu
- halte warm first-person indicative present
- halten warm first-person indicative plural
- hältst warm indicative present second-person
- haltet warm indicative plural present
- haltest warm second-person singular subjunctive
- hielten warm first-person indicative plural
- hielte warm first-person singular subjunctive
- hieltest warm indicative preterite second-person
- hieltst warm indicative preterite second-person
- hieltet warm indicative plural preterite
- halte warm! imperative singular
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is warmhalten in German?
warmhalten appears about once in every 4 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).