widmen
German, verb
widmen is spelled W-I-D-M-E-N (6 letters) and appears 10 times per million words in written German, the 7,028th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Widmen is a German verb meaning “to dedicate, to devote” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Widmen is a different word: “gerund of widmen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “als Autor, Künstler oder Ähnliches ein eigenes Werk für jemand anderen bestimmen”.
What does widmen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to dedicate, to devote
- 2
to attend
noun
- 1
neutergerund of widmen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. als Autor, Künstler oder Ähnliches ein eigenes Werk für jemand anderen bestimmen 2. hingeben
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 widmen
- widmet present singular third-person
- widmete past
- gewidmet participle past
- haben auxiliary
- widmend participle present
- widme first-person indicative present
- widmest indicative present second-person
- widmeten first-person indicative plural
- widmetest indicative preterite second-person
- widmetet indicative plural preterite
- habe gewidmet first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben gewidmet first-person indicative multiword-construction
- widme! imperative singular
- widmet! imperative plural
- gewidmet haben active infinitive perfect
- gewidmet werden processual-passive infinitive present
- gewidmet worden sein processual-passive infinitive perfect
- gewidmet sein statal-passive infinitive present
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to widmen
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is widmen in German?
widmen 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).