ahnden
German, verb/aːndən/
ahnden is spelled A-H-N-D-E-N (6 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written German, the 48,028th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Ahnden is a German verb meaning “to punish something (the object is always the deed, never the perpetrator)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “bestrafen, strafen, strafrechtlich verfolgen”.
What does ahnden mean in English?
verb
- 1
to punish something (the object is always the deed, never the perpetrator)
Dieser Verstoß muss geahndet werden.
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. bestrafen, strafen, strafrechtlich verfolgen 2. ahnen
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 ahnden
- ahndet present singular third-person
- ahndete past
- geahndet participle past
- haben auxiliary
- ahndend participle present
- ahnde first-person indicative present
- ahndest indicative present second-person
- ahndeten first-person indicative plural
- ahndetest indicative preterite second-person
- ahndetet indicative plural preterite
- ahnd imperative second-person singular
- habe geahndet first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben geahndet first-person indicative multiword-construction
- ahnde! imperative singular
- ahnd! imperative singular
- ahndet! imperative plural
- geahndet haben active infinitive perfect
- geahndet werden processual-passive infinitive present
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce ahnden?
- /aːndən/
- [ˈaːndn̩]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to ahnden
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is ahnden in German?
ahnden appears about once in every 1 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).