sammelst

Sammelst is the second-person singular present tense form of the German verb sammeln, meaning to collect or to accumulate. It is used when addressing someone informally with the pronoun du.

In everyday German, sammst is employed to describe ongoing collecting activity by the person being spoken to. It often appears with objects indicating what is being collected, for example: Du sammelst Briefmarken. Du sammelst Münzen. Questions are formed with inversion or with the particle denn or oder, as in: Sammelst du Briefmarken?

Conjugation in the present tense (indicative) of sammeln is: ich sammle; du sammelst; er/sie/es sammelt; wir sammeln; ihr sammelt; sie/Sie sammeln. The stem is samm- with standard weak-verb endings. The past participle is gesammelt, and the noun form das Sammeln refers to the act or hobby of collecting.

Etymology traces sammeln to the Germanic core for “to gather,” related to other Germanic languages’ terms for bringing together. As a common verb, sammeln is used across contexts such as hobbies, inventory, or data collection, and sammelst appears in direct address in informal speech.

Related terms include Sammler (collector), Sammlung (collection), and Sammelstelle (collection point). In summary, sammst is a routine present-tense form used to describe what someone is currently collecting in informal German.