ziemen
German, verb
ziemen is spelled Z-I-E-M-E-N (6 letters) and appears about once in every 16 million words in written German, the 222,832nd most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Ziemen is a German verb meaning “to beseem, to be appropriate, to befit” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Ziemen is a different word: “gerund of ziemen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “passend sein, erlaubt sein”.
What does ziemen mean in English?
verb
- 1
datedto beseem, to be appropriate, to befit
noun
- 1
neutergerund of ziemen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. passend sein, erlaubt sein 2. sich gehören, sich erlauben
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 ziemen
- ziemt present singular third-person
- ziemte past
- geziemt participle past
- haben auxiliary
- ziemend participle present
- es ziemt indicative present singular
- es zieme singular subjunctive subjunctive-i
- es ziemte indicative preterite singular
- es hat geziemt indicative multiword-construction perfect
- es habe geziemt multiword-construction perfect singular
- es hatte geziemt indicative multiword-construction pluperfect
- es hätte geziemt multiword-construction pluperfect singular
- ziemen werden future future-i infinitive
- es werde ziemen future future-i multiword-construction
- es wird ziemen future future-i indicative
- es würde ziemen future future-i multiword-construction
- geziemt haben werden future future-ii infinitive
- es werde geziemt haben future future-ii multiword-construction
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is ziemen in German?
ziemen appears about once in every 16 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).