loben
German, verb
loben is a German verb meaning “to praise” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Loben is a different word: “dative plural of Lob”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “eine wertschätzende Aussage machen”.
What does loben mean in English?
verb
- 1
to praise
noun
- 1
neuterdative plural of Lob
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. eine wertschätzende Aussage machen 2. etwas zusagen, sich zu etwas verpflichten
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 loben
- lobt present singular third-person
- lobte past
- gelobt participle past
- haben auxiliary
- lobend participle present
- lobe first-person indicative present
- lobst indicative present second-person
- lobest second-person singular subjunctive
- lobet plural second-person subjunctive
- lobten first-person indicative plural
- lobtest indicative preterite second-person
- lobtet indicative plural preterite
- lob imperative second-person singular
- habe gelobt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben gelobt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- lobe! imperative singular
- lob! imperative singular
- lobt! imperative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to loben
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is loben in German?
loben appears 6.0 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).