ahnen
German, verb
ahnen is spelled A-H-N-E-N (5 letters) and appears 8.1 times per million words in written German, the 8,348th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Ahnen is a German verb meaning “to suspect, guess” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Ahnen is a different word: “plural of Ahn”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “eine Befürchtung haben”.
What does ahnen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to suspect, guess
Sag ihr die Wahrheit, da sie bereits etwas ahnt.
noun
- 1
masculineplural of Ahn
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. eine Befürchtung haben 2. etwas vermuten, vorhersehen
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 ahnen
- ahnt present singular third-person
- ahnte past
- geahnt participle past
- haben auxiliary
- ahnend participle present
- ahne first-person indicative present
- ahnst indicative present second-person
- ahnest second-person singular subjunctive
- ahnet plural second-person subjunctive
- ahnten first-person indicative plural
- ahntest indicative preterite second-person
- ahntet indicative plural preterite
- ahn imperative second-person singular
- habe geahnt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben geahnt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- ahne! imperative singular
- ahnt! imperative plural
- geahnt haben active infinitive perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to ahnen
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is ahnen in German?
ahnen appears 8.1 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).