gebühren
German, verb
gebühren is a German verb meaning “to be due, to be owed, to rightfully belong” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Gebühren is a different word: “plural of Gebühr”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “jemand hat Anspruch auf etwas”.
What does gebühren mean in English?
verb
- 1
to be due, to be owed, to rightfully belong
Ehre, wem Ehre gebührt.
- 2
archaicto be proper, seemly
noun
- 1
plural of Gebühr
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. jemand hat Anspruch auf etwas 2. es schickt sich; es ist richtig und angemessen
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 gebühren
- gebührt present singular third-person
- gebührte past
- haben auxiliary
- gebührend participle present
- gebühre first-person indicative present
- gebührst indicative present second-person
- gebührest second-person singular subjunctive
- gebühret plural second-person subjunctive
- gebührten first-person indicative plural
- gebührtest indicative preterite second-person
- gebührtet indicative plural preterite
- gebühr imperative second-person singular
- habe gebührt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben gebührt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- gebühre! imperative singular
- gebührt! imperative plural
- gebührt haben active infinitive perfect
- zu gebühren active extended infinitive
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to gebühren
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is gebühren in German?
gebühren appears 17 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).