Ahn
German, noun
Ahn is spelled A-H-N (3 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written German, the 55,211th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Ahn is a German masculine noun meaning “ancestor” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). In lower case, ahn is a different word: “singular imperative of ahnen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “Vorfahr einer Gruppe oder eines Volkes”.
What does Ahn mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineancestor
verb
- 1
singular imperative of ahnen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Vorfahr einer Gruppe oder eines Volkes 2. Großvater
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 Ahn
- Ahnes genitive
- Ahns genitive
- Ahnen genitive
- Ahnin feminine
- Ahne dative singular
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to Ahn
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Ahn in German?
Ahn appears about once in every 2 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).