wurmen
German, verb
wurmen is spelled W-U-R-M-E-N (6 letters) and appears about once in every 31 million words in written German, the 326,119th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Wurmen is a German verb meaning “to bother, to rankle (to cause a not necessarily strong but continuous feeling of anger, worry, or regret in someone)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Wurmen is a different word: “gerund of wurmen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “innerlich quälen”.
What does wurmen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to bother, to rankle (to cause a not necessarily strong but continuous feeling of anger, worry, or regret in someone)
noun
- 1
neutergerund of wurmen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. innerlich quälen
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 wurmen
- wurmt present singular third-person
- wurmte past
- gewurmt participle past
- haben auxiliary
- wurmend participle present
- wurme first-person indicative present
- wurmst indicative present second-person
- wurmest second-person singular subjunctive
- wurmet plural second-person subjunctive
- wurmten first-person indicative plural
- wurmtest indicative preterite second-person
- wurmtet indicative plural preterite
- wurm imperative second-person singular
- habe gewurmt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben gewurmt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- gewurmt haben active infinitive perfect
- zu wurmen active extended infinitive
- gewurmt zu haben active extended infinitive
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to wurmen
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is wurmen in German?
wurmen appears about once in every 31 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).